Infections Correlate with Entrepreneurship

Post by lm28469 » Thu, May 30, 2024, 1:13 PM UTC

unsupp0rted wrote: post #15

sigmoid10 wrote: post #4

Another exemplary paper of why you need to beware of reversed causality. Since infection with T. Gondii is much more likely if you are less cautious with food and animals, it is very much possible that the causal link is actually reversed. It's also worth pointing out that current research has cast major doubt on the old idea that toxoplasmosis causes any psychological effects in humans [1]. While it might sound cool…

> current research has cast major doubt on the old idea that toxoplasmosis causes any psychological effects in humans Asking non-jokingly, how do we explain “cat ladies”? Women who hoard cats and seem to be crazy. They’re not typically “hamster ladies” or “dog men”. Sure with billions of people you’ll find examples of anything. But “cat ladies” seems to be an obvious symptom of something.

Post by Steven420 » Thu, May 30, 2024, 1:35 PM UTC

unsupp0rted wrote: post #15

sigmoid10 wrote: post #4

Another exemplary paper of why you need to beware of reversed causality. Since infection with T. Gondii is much more likely if you are less cautious with food and animals, it is very much possible that the causal link is actually reversed. It's also worth pointing out that current research has cast major doubt on the old idea that toxoplasmosis causes any psychological effects in humans [1]. While it might sound cool…

> current research has cast major doubt on the old idea that toxoplasmosis causes any psychological effects in humans Asking non-jokingly, how do we explain “cat ladies”? Women who hoard cats and seem to be crazy. They’re not typically “hamster ladies” or “dog men”. Sure with billions of people you’ll find examples of anything. But “cat ladies” seems to be an obvious symptom of something.

Post by chiffre01 » Thu, May 30, 2024, 2:00 PM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 30, 2024, 2:03 PM UTC

iiio8 wrote: post #17

unsupp0rted wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> current research has cast major doubt on the old idea that toxoplasmosis causes any psychological effects in humans Asking non-jokingly, how do we explain “cat ladies”? Women who hoard cats and seem to be crazy. They’re not typically “hamster ladies” or “dog men”. Sure with billions of people you’ll find examples of anything. But “cat ladies” seems to be an obvious symptom of something.

Niche media hype. There are other such media hypes which you can explain like that without involving a neurologically active parasite. For example the belief that whites are being systematically replaced by blacks/hispanics/muslims/jews/... Or the belief that there is a single supreme being in the sky, watching everything we do, having killed his son for humanities sins. There are no rational reasons to believe any o…

Post by justinclift » Thu, May 30, 2024, 2:14 PM UTC

detourdog wrote: post #18

unsupp0rted wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> current research has cast major doubt on the old idea that toxoplasmosis causes any psychological effects in humans Asking non-jokingly, how do we explain “cat ladies”? Women who hoard cats and seem to be crazy. They’re not typically “hamster ladies” or “dog men”. Sure with billions of people you’ll find examples of anything. But “cat ladies” seems to be an obvious symptom of something.

It might be that the cats find the crazy lady.