Heman Bekele was inspired by Ethiopian workers laboring under the sun, and wanted to help ‘as many people as possible’
A middle-school teen has been named “America’s top young scientist” after developing a bar of soap that could be useful in the treatment of melanoma, a skin cancer that is diagnosed in about 100,000 people in the US each year and kills approximately 8,000.
Lets get 1 thing straight, no he most likely didnt invent this, a team at 3M did. You always see these stories about rich kids and how they did this amazing thing while at their internship where their dad is the lab manager/owner when in reality these companies just wanted a poster child who was just some intern that is still learning about what titration means. I would bet that the extent of this kids biochemistry knowledge is that mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
Also almost certainly doesn’t work as the headline describes.
“Teenagers cures cancer” is shameless click bait.
Yeah “wins award” is also ridiculous, if that was true this kid would deserve the nobel prize
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anything that credits a single person for any modern development
So Gore didn’t invent the internet??
He laid the series of tubes down
It’s what movies have brainwashed us to think what a hero would do to save the world instead of giving credit to the collective.
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This exact news article is one, but I suppose that doesn’t count.
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sure Edison, did almost nothing himself, is still erroneously praised as “inventor of the light bulb” and other shit
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while you may not like the example, the truth is a lot of these types of things required organizations and teams to develop (modern word for invent, because I have had interactions with people that illiterate), but that doesn’t fit in the popular narrative of the genius inventor who through hard work and determination made the world better and got rich for it.
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Every single discovery or development that has ever occurred
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Where do you get your certainty? Do you have absolutely anything to back this up?
Don’t get me wrong, the story might be shit, but, that doesn’t make your opinion smell less.
I stayed at a holiday inn last night thats how I know. Do you really need proof that a 12 year old in middle school figured something out that people with PhDs have not done?
If this kid did anything other than throw shit at the wall then ill deliver a video of me eating my entire stack of textbooks from college.
Considering I know someone, personally, who also made a scientific advancement at a young age, yes, it is possible.
They taught themselves python, then how to inference and train machine learning models, then used image recognition models to detect their sister’s illness, which had visual signs.
They had to get help from someone with a phd to test this on a larger scale, cuz resources, but I absolutely believe a middle/high schooler could do it.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/del-norte-high-school-seniors-invention-could-save-thousands-of-lives/3159354/
It’s not that phd’s are incapable of doing it, it’s simply that they never bothered taking a crack at this problem, using this method.
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no, fuck that little bobby twerp nerd looking headass
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Little Bobby had an idea for a potato peeling robot and then somebody else took his idea and actually made it while Bobby is still daydreaming about it.
Will you say little Bobby invented a new kind of robot?
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