Doctors used to believe that babies couldn't feel/understand pain.
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More like doctors reject inconvenient truth in favor of useful lie
Humans in general, not just doctors. Not all humans but it's not a rare trait. Or maybe all humans and I'm doing it myself by leaving that opening, which might be accepted because others also want to believe they don't.
Doctors still think the cervix has no nerve endings.
I'm not sure what you mean by this; the cervix is known to have many nerve endings and is accepted medical knowledge.
Still don’t offer pain relief for procedures like IUD insertion and the like.
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@YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com explained it much better than I did in my admittedly flippant statement.
It’s more like doctors don’t believe women can feel the cervix very well even though we very, very much can.
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And that apples are dangerous.
Tbf apple seeds do have cyanide in them and should not be consumed in large quantities.
"A lethal dose of cyanide is around 50–300 milligrams (mg). A 2018 analysis of previous research states that a person would have to eat around 83–500 seeds to develop acute cyanide poisoning." Medical News Today, citing 2018 Oxford analysis
A redditor also did the math on how many apples that would be: "Apple seeds can release as much as 0.6 mg of Cyanide per gram of seed.
The average apple seed has a mass of 0.756 grams
The average apple contains 8 seeds
Therefore there are approximately 5.25 grams of apple seeds per apple, yielding a theoretical maximum release of 3.25 mg of cyanide from one apple
The lethal dose of Cyanide is based on body mass and is listed as 1.5 mg/kg.
A human can ingest about 41% of the lethal dose before seeing any side effects.
41% of 1.5 mg/kg = 0.615 mg/kg
The average adult male weighs 81.6466 kg (180 lbs)
Therefore the lethal dose in the average male is 50.213 mg.
50.213/3.15 = ~16 Apples
Therefore the average male can consume ~16 apples without feeling any side effects."
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I mean, they certainly don't understand it yet. They absolutely feel it and react instinctively to it, though. It might even form a traumatic memory of a sort that will affect them later in life.
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When I was a kid, I watched a TV show with one of Australia's early 'celebrity' chefs, Bernard King. He had a live lobster in front of him, which he then proceeded to cut the tail from. The lobster made audible 'squeeee!' noises, and tried to move away. He just laughed and said it couldn't feel anything.
Anyway, he was a cunt.
Humans couldn't possibly experience pain in a way that matters. They only have one nerve cluster! How much processing power could they have?
why are thelobsters cooked? They turn red during cooking, so these two must be speaking from experience.
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You wouldn't do this to your cat. Or your dog. Or any other pet. Why should they have to go through it?
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It's actually very environmentally friendly to eat humans so the momentary pain is offset by the collective good.
It's only environmentally friendly to eat humans with a net worth over a certain amount.
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That noise that sounds like screaming is just the air leaving his lungs
Oh thank god. I thought they would die.
You know, I've read that stabbing them through their head doesn't really kill them because they have distributed ganglia instead of one centralized brain.
You need to define what the word alive means first.
If you cut a roach's head, it stays sort of alive in that the body responds when trying to touch it or expose it to harm but it won't do anything if left alone. just standing still until eventual death.
A decapitated roach might still be able to "feel" pain but in my personal opinion - I am no expert in the matter - it doesn't feel stress, trauma or have bad memory of the incident. Just pain and an appropriate reflex to it.
I had a girlfriend like that once. It didn't work out. She did, fortunately, taste great with garlic butter so the relationship wasn't a total loss.
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I judge people who don't sever the notochord first. It's like the most basic respect you can offer.
I think the most basic respect you can offer an animal is to just not kill it.
That's fair. I accept that I am not the second coming, but I live in this world as best I can while still enjoying the comforts it offers
i don't think any living animal actively offers themself for your culinary pleasure.
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I learned that when I was a kid (more than 25 years ago), and I was like why is this aloud and not forbidden...
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