I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
How the Frontal Lobotomy Won the Nobel Prize in 1949
Submitted 1 month ago by theHRguy@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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dhork@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 month ago
I don’t even have to watch. It was because it looked like a miracle cure, successfully “treating” a lot of ailments.
The problem is it is barbaric and is based on weak or incomplete science. Victims sometimes lived with chronic pain, had secondary complications, and/or died as a result (go figure 🙄). Turns out, treating brains like scrambled eggs isn’t good medicine.
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Well, you’ll be happy to note that the dinner menu served at the 1949 Nobel banquet seems terrible…
Starter: asparagus puree
Main course: Cracked goose with red cabbage and horseradish cream
Desert: Napoleon cake
Note that “Cracked goose” is translated via Google from the original Swedish “sprängd anka”, directly translated by me it would be “blaster duck” or “exploded duck”, which simply means that the duck has been lightly salted.
BelatedPeacock@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What barbarity we once had.
Anyway, time to prescribe an 8 year old an amphetamine because he fidgets to much when told to sit at a desk for 8 hours.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Psychiatry hasn’t advanced much since then. It’s still largely ruled by pseudo-science, pharma, etc.
Is there r/radicalmentalhealth yet for Lemmy?
tabular@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) was given The Nobel Peace Prize 1979. She was not a woman of peace, she “helped” people to needlessly suffer for religious justifications. When accepting the award she criticized countries that legalized abortion - which of course is a big threat to peace /s.
Zak@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They gave one of those to fucking Henry Kissinger. It clearly doesn’t mean what you think it means, if it has any meaning at all.
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 1 month ago
Stalin was nominated twice