These 26 Shocking Scientific Discoveries Were Almost Completely Ignored—Why?

It seems relevant to this thread to inform everyone that in 1994, the invention of the year went to the widget in a can of Guinness that help carbonate a Guinness only when you opened it.

Second place was The Internet.

Sometimes the world doesn’t care because they don’t really understand.

Myburgher , freepik Report

Back in 2016, when the results of the CTE brain analysis on former football players went up in JAMA and showed just how extensive and common these injuries are, it should have caused an uproar. And people were aware of it, to be sure, but it seems like most have chosen to just ignore it and assume it’s someone else’s problem, along with hollow justifications like “they knew what they were getting into” and “they get compensated well enough for that risk.”.

sdwoodchuck , freepik Report

CRISPR-Cas9 is actual Jurassic Park s**t.

People who were born blind have had their sight regained due to genetic tinkering made possible by this biological tech.

Mosquitos can be eliminated, practically eradicating Malaria by editing the genes, which are then passed on to offspring, making them sterile.

Food can be, and has been, made more nutritious, as in the case of Golden Rice, producing more Vitamin A in impoverished countries.

It’s Gattaca in the flesh, and people just shrugged

Edit: A lot of people are asking “Why do I still have mosquitos? or Why hasn’t this happened yet??” and I can say that this technology is still extremely nascent.

It’s a massive achievement of humanity and another foothold in our ability to shape nature, but it is still inaccurate. Targeting specific genes in different species, let alone our own, is time-consuming and requires many trials to get right.

Targeting multiple genes, at the same time, is exponentially more difficult. Remember that genes are just DNA sequences at random events on the entire chain. And each sequence is rarely actually next to each other on the chain.

Some of you have also mentioned that we don’t fully understand the effect this would have on not only one species but all those others that interact with whichever we were trying to alter.

In short.. It’s incredibly high-tech, and with incredible technology comes incredible questions and incredible consequences that need to be considered before fully deploying.

real_picklejuice , freepik Report

30 years ago, Japan developed a replacement for Saran Wrap or shrink wrap that was actually more durable and biodegradable. It failed test markers in America because 1) it was made out of shrimp shells 2) it had a pink hue 3) false belief that shellfish allergies would cause people to become sick 4) the packaging had shrimp 🦐 yes with the heads.

MauiValleyGirl , freepik Report