• lime!@feddit.nu
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    7 months ago

    paracetamol was synthesized in 1877. use a real argument, like the left-handedness graph.

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      7 months ago

      Italian immigrants in the 20s were proven feeble minded by US cutting edge science that gave them IQ tests in English.

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          7 months ago

          Someone can refresh my memory, but didn’t they used to force left handed children to write with their right hands because something something satanic forces?

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            Yes, and the graph reflects that. The visible prevalence of left handedness increased when we stopped trying to beat the demons out of left handed children. Teachers would beat kids’ knuckles with a yardstick if they caught them writing with their left hands.

            It’s not that there were suddenly more left handed people; Those people had always existed, but got beat until they used their right hand instead. When we stopped beating them, they became more visible.

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            the latin word for right is “dexter”, as in “ambidextrous”. the latin word for left is “sinister”. you do the math numerology.