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  • Cokes@feddit.orgtoWikipedia@lemmy.worldSponge diving
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    When the Greek sponge divers started using surface supplied standard diving suits (locally called scaphandro) in 1865 the death and injury rate from decompression sickness was extremely high as the procedures for safe decompression were as yet unknown. Some estimates put the death toll at around 10,000 Mediterranean divers in the first 50 years of surface supplied diving. [5]

    Interesting. So much scientific progress is earned with blood. That’s an odd example for that.


  • Cokes@feddit.orgtoWikipedia@lemmy.worldStoned ape theory
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    The stoned ape theory had been widely criticized by the greater scientific community. McKenna’s theory was labeled as overly speculative by much of the academic community[9] and misrepresenting the studies of psychopharmacologist Roland L. Fischer, whose research was frequently cited by McKenna as evidence for the purported effects of the mushrooms on early humans. Additionally, many pointed to groups such as the Aztecs or various Amazonian tribes whose usage of psychedelic substances does not reflect any of the evolutionary advantages that McKenna argued would emerge from using psilocybin-containing substances.[10][11]

    The article is good, but be sure to read this part at the end as well.