more than any specific project the meme is referencing, it’s pointing out the difference between scientific acceptance and derision, which has changed more drastically in the last 10 than in the last 20 years.
Science derision, has been around for forever, look up the history of anti-vaccination leagues in the UK and US in response to the small pox vaccine in the 1800s. There were antivax parents at my primary school in the 90s too. They were just in pockets of small communities before, and therefore wielded less power. Social media has allowed them to gather into one town square and allowed them to reinforce each other’s delusions, amplify their voices, spread (aptly) like a virus, and most importantly tie it to a political/culture war.
Or it’s the consequences of lead and heavy metals poisoning finally coming to their natural conclusion regarding the function of the human brain.
unfortunately, that is a pedantic and unnecessary expansion of both what the meme and my comment succinctly stated; you are apparently still missing the point of the actual meme and my comment: the specifically rapid public shift from science appreciation to scientific derision.
I’m happy you’re finally learning about this, but please make it clear that you have discovered something new for yourself and the reason you are publicly sharing it, rather than pretending to bestow knowledge upon me as if I asked for you to make a perfectly understandable meme 40 times longer and less clear.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
I hate to tell you this, but the Human Genome Project the meme is referencing was completed in 2003 and published in 2004.
Time sure flies 🥲
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
more than any specific project the meme is referencing, it’s pointing out the difference between scientific acceptance and derision, which has changed more drastically in the last 10 than in the last 20 years.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Science derision, has been around for forever, look up the history of anti-vaccination leagues in the UK and US in response to the small pox vaccine in the 1800s. There were antivax parents at my primary school in the 90s too. They were just in pockets of small communities before, and therefore wielded less power. Social media has allowed them to gather into one town square and allowed them to reinforce each other’s delusions, amplify their voices, spread (aptly) like a virus, and most importantly tie it to a political/culture war.
Or it’s the consequences of lead and heavy metals poisoning finally coming to their natural conclusion regarding the function of the human brain.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
unfortunately, that is a pedantic and unnecessary expansion of both what the meme and my comment succinctly stated; you are apparently still missing the point of the actual meme and my comment: the specifically rapid public shift from science appreciation to scientific derision.
I’m happy you’re finally learning about this, but please make it clear that you have discovered something new for yourself and the reason you are publicly sharing it, rather than pretending to bestow knowledge upon me as if I asked for you to make a perfectly understandable meme 40 times longer and less clear.