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  • enkers@sh.itjust.workstoWorld News@lemmy.ml•‘It’s not close’ - Wikipedia concludes Israel is committing genocide, ending editorial debate
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    6 days ago

    I think what’s incredibility obvious to you and I is an area of willful and encouraged ignorance for some who benefit from the results of their ignorance. I think that the media is largely complicit is beyond distasteful, but it’s also the reality we live in.

    I also think it’s important for wikipedia to work through their own NPOV policies. It should be applauded that they eventually arrived at the correct conclusion, AND moreso that they spent time considering and discarding contrary positions.

    Accepting one particular viewpoint with no consideration is dogmatism, and is not helpful to progressive causes.

  • enkers@sh.itjust.workstoWorld News@lemmy.world•Fuck. This.English
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    28 days ago

    NPR made it a point to say that some observers worry that the media attention Hoover’s case has drawn could undermine an organ-transplant system with a waiting list of more than 100,000 people. A professor of medical ethics with whom NPR spoke said all indications are that cases like Hoover’s are generally “one-offs that hopefully we’ll be able to get to the bottom of and prevent from ever happening again”.

    Obviously the whole thing is horrifying, but it doesn’t move the needle much for me on my personal choice to donate or not.

  • enkers@sh.itjust.workstoWorld News@lemmy.world•The planet’s vision is getting worse: 50% of the population will have myopia by 2050English
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    4 months ago

    Did you read the paper from my 2nd link? There seems to be a growing body of evidence that suggests that is indeed possible:

    Similar to the increase in the prevalence of persistent median arteries of the forearms, the prevalence of other anatomical features such as spina bifida occulta (Henneberg & Henneberg 1999; Solomon et al., 2009; Lee et al., 2010), tarsal coalitions (Solomon et al., 2003) and fabella (Berthaume et al., 2019) has increased over the last 2–3 centuries. Evidence indicates that changes in the natural selection pressures acting on these specific anatomical features could have caused microevolutionary processes, leading to the observed increases in prevalence rates (Henneberg and Henneberg 1999; Solomon et al., 2009; Lee et al., 2010; Rühli and Henneberg, 2013; Berthaume et al., 2019).

    Obviously actual research would have to be done to confirm or deny it in this case, and I probably should have stated my original thought a bit more skeptically.

  • enkers@sh.itjust.workstoWorld News@lemmy.world•The planet’s vision is getting worse: 50% of the population will have myopia by 2050English
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    4 months ago

    I was reading over the paper and found the source of that particular usage:

    Furthermore, in a study by Henneberg and George (1995; Am J Phys Anthropol 96, 329–334), has suggested that increasing prevalence of the median artery during the 20th century was a ‘possible secular trend’.

    LOL. I kinda want to follow that citation for the full quote.

    Edit: I found the original source that gives some further context:

    The occurrence in historical times of changes in human body size and in the timing of events in postnatal development, such as, for instance, sexual maturation, is well known and documented. Such changes occurring from century to century or decade to decade are known as “secular trends.”

    So I guess it’s actually domain specific jargon.