this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2026
186 points (99.5% liked)

World News

56600 readers
2633 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] theherk@lemmy.world 40 points 5 days ago (4 children)

People will definitely reply about how obvious this is and how we already knew it. But research improving empirical knowledge about any links in any field is still valuable.

[–] bramkaandorp@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Absolutely. One of the reasons why replication studies are so valuable, yet they rarely get any news coverage.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

or maybe we should just hit those people and see what happens?

empirical research at it's finest.

I was thinking exactly this. Thank you for stating it first.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I wonder what else can be done with it. We culturally rejected hitting since the late 80s as a solution. Yet here we are. 40 years later.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

nothing. you can't control individuals behaviors in their own homes. that is where this is going on.

and you can be assured the people doing the violence are 100% against in it in public. and the loudest ones... most likely are the abusers, because people project their shame loudly and proudly.

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Maybe some sort of longitudinal studies about long term effects. Who knows? But each datum helps.