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> Turns out the old saying, "Let the kids play and eat dirt," might’ve been right all along—who knew? Everyone? That's not an unusual position by any means. It
by thaumasiotes 1y ago
> Turns out the old saying, "Let the kids play and eat dirt," might’ve been right all along—who knew?
Everyone? That's not an unusual position by any means. It's known as the Hygiene Hypothesis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
- fsckboy 1y agowhile everybody is correcting everybody, let's point out that the Hygiene Hypothesis is not called the Hygiene Theory, and the hygiene theories we have generally say to keep things clean.