What are good explanations for why the purpose of the human chin is claimed to be unknown by scholars?
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Tendency to repeat something once claimed by someone
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A canary trap to identify manipulation of pop science media
49%
Poor scholarly communication
49%
Knowledgeable people don't want others possessed by evil spirits
48%
Censorship by the CIA
47%
Most people are much dumber than E Harding (there's no conspiracy, scholars are just genuinely at a loss)
43%
To distract from being wrong about the appendix

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkYITGZccMs

I'll let you guys provide the answers, since I don't know the answer. For reference, the purpose of the chin is as a rest for stomach sleeping (which is something every important military discovers at some point). Do not try this at home unless you know the consequences.

Not sure how I'll resolve this; at some point I'll probably make a poll in which people can vote for likely options.

  • Update 2025-10-15 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): The creator is offering 500 mana to anyone who finds credible sources on this topic. The creator will decide what qualifies as a credible source.

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BTW I am willing to give 500 mana to anyone who finds me credible sources on this. I will decide what a credible source is.

If we didn't have chins all the blood would leak out of the hole in our heads.

@asmith How?

bought Ṁ1 YES

@EnopoletusHarding there would be a big hole there

@No_uh Apes don't have chins and do fine.

@EnopoletusHarding My friend, acknowledging full well this kills all the funny of it, I have to inform you that Andrew's reply was a joke (as was mine).

i.e. if you yanked away my skin and bones and tendons and muscles from my chin right now I would have a giant hole in the bottom of my head from which I would bleed out and die.

He's being silly.

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