• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    That’s true…

    But applicable to almost all our medical information.

    Like, the BMI scale was developed in the 1800s by a Belgian astronomer, based solely on European men of that time period.

    But people are really fucking insistent we keep it, because in 6th grade a gym teacher said it was important.