Toxicologists and medical scientists looking for data on humans suddenly having to learn Japanese (or German) ...
I can think of 731 reasons why.
Edit: or I hope they don't mengele the translations.
"Do animals experience hope?"
Similar to the meme... godamn did they fuck up by not holding geneticists to something close to... SOME standard naming.
Dated a maternal fetal medicine specialist. She'd come home being like "you ever have to explain to someone they have a mutation in the 'sonic the hedgehog' gene of their kid?!" If you're familiar with what it does in fruit flies (when it was named), it's fucking horrific in humans. Don't google it.
It does make more sense if you consider that it is part of a line of Hedgehog genes, all of which make Fruit fly embryos look like hedgehogs (spiky) if they're inactivated.
They didn't just go "Let's name a gene with bad outcomes if mutant in humans after a video game character! Yipee! Hooray!", at least not for that.
Though they did name SHH's inhibitor Robotnikin.
it's fucking horrific in humans. Don't google it.
Is that the R34 sonic mutation?
It might be? I forget exactly what it is in humans, I just remember the pictures I was shown. Midline disorders are nightmare fuel.
Drag has been diagnosed with disorders that are just named after some guy, and it was boring. The kids who get told they have Sonic Hedgehog mutation are lucky. If all of our disorders had fun names, then it wouldn't be taboo.
That's a way cool name!
Read about FOOF
Edit: found the reference: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride
Whenever you want to know just how bad it would be to drop on your hand some chemical that comes with a concerning number of warning stickers, like hydrazine, there is usually a 1950s paper likely in conjunction with the US Airforce that that can tell you, with receipts.
Alternatively you’re asking physiology questions and the first paper that pops up is written by a 90s phrenologist whose Wikipedia page states they’re a well known white supremacist.
Got two sentences into the abstract before stating “hol up”.
Came across an unironic use of "momgoloid" in a paper from 1992 once
What question? What paper? Inquiring minds want to know!
The 40s and 50s where the decades for unethical human experimentation. There's all kind of random shit that we shouldn't know, but do know because of that period.
I once wrote a short paper for a high school science class about MKUltra and the Holmsburg Prison Experiments. Nothing quite like heading a supposed man of science refer to a bunch of humans like they are cattle.
