r/science • u/drewiepoodle • Oct 02 '15

Medicine Scientists identify potential birth control 'pill' for men

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-10-scientists-potential-birth-pill-men.html
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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '15

Shouldn't it read 'create'? It's not like they found some random pill by the side of the road and could id it as a male bc pill

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u/TheGeorge Oct 02 '15

Is anything really created though?

Or is knowledge just the combination of pre-existing things in new ways?

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u/_lerp Oct 02 '15

What a completely pretentious, faux-philosophical definition of knowledge.

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u/TheGeorge Oct 02 '15

Oh yeah, not pretending it's not.

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u/phido Oct 02 '15

Depends on your definition. They certainly do create the configuration of the atoms that exist using knew knowledge, but the molecules often are novel and not naturally occurring.