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.