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[-] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

yeah, the idea didn't take off until the previous generation of doctors died. it's a fact that often both encourages and discourages me.

even doctors were too stubborn to accept they may have been wrong about something so important, no matter the evidence. however, even those that are so stubborn that they'll take it to the grave will eventually be passed up by a new generation who has known of this idea since before they were born. at worst, this kind of stubbornnes is only likely to stall progress for 2 generations.

still, millions of people died because humans are stubborn.

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 9 points 5 months ago

That is the TL;DR of Thomas Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions." It is almost universal that when a new way of looking at the world comes along, very few people are persuaded to adopt it on an individual level. The consensus view generally stays the same until enough scientists who grew up with the old model die, that the ones remaining are outnumbered by new scientists who grew up with the new model.

It is bleakly comic, and there is surely some sort of productive lesson there, but I don't know what it is.

[-] subtext@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I’m hopeful this will be how we solve racism and intolerance… hopefully as enough people are brought up the right way, we will eventually move past the hatred in the world today.