The behavioural cue of ‘flexible self-protection’ is a way to establish whether an animal feels pain, scientists say

Crickets that received the hot probe “overwhelmingly” directed their attention to the affected antenna – they groomed it more frequently, and tended to it over a longer period of time, he says. “They weren’t just agitated and flustered. They were directing their attention to the actual antennae that was hit with this hot probe.”

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[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

People claim fish don't feel pain to feel better about torturing and eating them. So that is not ahocking at all to me

[–] YawningNostalgia@thelemmy.club 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

When I was in med school assisting in circumcisions (didn't want to, had to) the doctor said that the baby screaming was not proof that he felt pain, and demonstrated it by poking the baby and showing that he cried as a response to that. Absolutely nonsensical for a supposedly intelligent person to say. The cry was vastly different from the circ and a poke. It was an excuse not to use local anesthesia or justify the whole process I guess.
The funny part is that that when I was on OBGYN at a different hospital, and when I was at my home hospital on peds, the pediatricians did circumcisions. So I got twice as many circumcisions as my classmates. Some of them could have theoretically attended zero if their schedule was flipped and they were on peds at the OBGYN circumcising hospital and on OBGYN at the peds circumcising hospital. I can't understand why someone would claim someone else doesn't feel pain. I wish we had a machine that could make someone feel for a second what you feel so that it stops being minimized or disbelieved.

[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

I mean no offense, but some Dr's are wild. It's not just babies who are faking pain, but also women and POC. My husband was given the same pain meds/schedule for a cut on his thumb that I was for childbirth with a second degree tear. He was given even better pain meds the time we went in for a "mystery pain" in his chest that they could find no evidence of.