Alternatively you’re asking physiology questions and the first paper that pops up is written by a 90s phrenologist whose Wikipedia page states they’re a well known white supremacist.
Got two sentences into the abstract before stating “hol up”.
well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder
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Jaderick@lemmy.world 5 months ago
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Came across an unironic use of “momgoloid” in a paper from 1992 once
batmaniam@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Similar to the meme… godamn did they fuck up by not holding geneticists to something close to… SOME standard naming.
Dated a maternal fetal medicine specialist. She’d come home being like “you ever have to explain to someone they have a mutation in the ‘sonic the hedgehog’ gene of their kid?!” If you’re familiar with what it does in fruit flies (when it was named), it’s fucking horrific in humans. Don’t google it.
Toes@ani.social 5 months ago
it’s fucking horrific in humans. Don’t google it.
Is that the R34 sonic mutation?
batmaniam@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It might be? I forget exactly what it is in humans, I just remember the pictures I was shown. Midline disorders are nightmare fuel.
T156@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It does make more sense if you consider that it is part of a line of Hedgehog genes, all of which make Fruit fly embryos look like hedgehogs (spiky) if they’re inactivated.
They didn’t just go “Let’s name a gene with bad outcomes if mutant in humans after a video game character! Yipee! Hooray!”, at least not for that.
Though they did name SHH’s inhibitor Robotnikin.
batmaniam@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh I get how it got that way, it’s just unfortunate what that lead to in a clinical setting.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
Drag has been diagnosed with disorders that are just named after some guy, and it was boring. The kids who get told they have Sonic Hedgehog mutation are lucky. If all of our disorders had fun names, then it wouldn’t be taboo.
T156@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A SHH mutation is generally not considered compatible with life. So it’s less the kids who’d find out, and more the parents.
yamanii@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s a way cool name!
Mbourgon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What question? What paper? Inquiring minds want to know!
fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 months ago
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I once wrote a short paper for a high school science class about MKUltra and the Holmsburg Prison Experiments. Nothing quite like heading a supposed man of science refer to a bunch of humans like they are cattle.
marcos@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The 40s and 50s where the decades for unethical human experimentation. There’s all kind of random shit that we shouldn’t know, but do know because of that period.
wewbull@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Not so much that period, but the late 30s - early 40s.
Mbourgon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Gotcha, I was just wondering what specific “slightly bad shit“ paper, and ethical dilemma, they had run across
propter_hog@hexbear.net 5 months ago
Read about FOOF
Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 5 months ago
Whenever you want to know just how bad it would be to drop on your hand some chemical that comes with a concerning number of warning stickers, like hydrazine, there is usually a 1950s paper likely in conjunction with the US Airforce that that can tell you, with receipts.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
“Do animals experience hope?”
workerONE@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How come when you call 1-800-GOT-JUNK Lisa from “Legal” department has a prerecorded greeting to let you know that all calls are recorded? I wasn’t going to ask if they could dispose of a dead body
Phineaz@feddit.org 5 months ago
Toxicologists and medical scientists looking for data on humans suddenly having to learn Japanese (or German) …
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I can think of 731 reasons why.