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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.

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[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not that meme, they will never have that moment of revelation because they enjoy what they are doing, and signed up for the chance to hurt others

Humanity contains monsters and we need to stop pretending it doesn't

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Many of the German Nazi's in WW2 believed in what they were doing. Not all of them since there was a nontrivial number that were conscripted, and would have rather not participated in the Nazi thing, but still, it went the other way too.