We also need to be careful trusting headlines that might confirm our existing beliefs. I see a lot of comments here amounting to “well obviously, everyone has k

We also need to be careful trusting headlines that might confirm our existing beliefs. I see a lot of comments here amounting to “well obviously, everyone has known this for centuries”. But none of us have been alive for centuries or across many cultures. The way the culture we live in represents history informs our biases, and may not be accurate. In fact it can serve the status quo to suggest that the way things are now “have always been this way” regardless of the veracity of these claims.