Re:Why soap works so well on most viruses
by slavik81 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:41PM
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The categorization of life and non-life is the first step in taxonomy, which was historically based on long property checklists. I think it may be more the case that advances in biology have changed the science. The emphasis moved from stamp collecting to modelling as we acquired better tools and a deeper understanding of biological processes. Education just got left behind.
Re:Why soap works so well on most viruses
by mncharity on Friday March 13, 2020 @06:13PM
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Interesting idea. I wonder how one might easily explore it?
Google trends has data to 2004. "living nonliving"[1], aside from being a school-year detector, seems to show a 3x increase in the 2010's?
I'll also link [2], but I don't know what to make of it.
[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=living%2... [2] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=living+and+non...
> in the scientific communities
"Is it alive? <long property checklist> Yes/No" is an example of K-12 science education content diverging from science community practice. Both by emphasizing a little used concept, and by being inconsistent with community use.
With bonus points for it being... widely taught; taught as if it were science; an unnecessary hook for learning a set of properties; and an incoherently unfruitful predicate.
I don't know if there's a real name for such? I call them science-education-isms.