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Immovable-Floss t1_j8gb9wx wrote

Reply to comment by gravitywind1012 in A study in the US has found, compared to unvaccinated people, protection from the risk of dying from COVID during the six-month omicron wave for folks who had two doses of an mRNA vaccine was 42% for 40- to 59-year-olds; 27% for 60- to 79-year-olds; and 46% for people 80 and older. by Wagamaga

MDPI is known to publish low-quality research from institutions whose scientific practices are questionable. Not saying this is the case for this study but MDPI has low standards and people will often use this as a means to discredit studies, unless the study agrees with what they already agree with.

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Marchello_E t1_j8gajby wrote

Reply to Study on former citizens of East Germany sheds light on why people may choose deliberate ignorance by chrisdh79

>Curiosity, the desire to obtain knowledge, is one of the defining traits of human beings. Yet there are situations when people willingly choose not to know. This phenomenon — deliberate ignorance — has been attracting a growing interest from researchers in various scientific disciplines.

This is not about how to solve a puzzle, or why bumblebees can fly, or how the Moon was formed....!!

This is like finding out that your best neighbor is Jewish and for some stated absurd and obscure reason you have to deal with it.

I can imagine that some folks were forced/suckered into the Stasi-situation and are deeply sorry. That doesn't make it an excuse yet finding out about them forces an opinion, and an emotion, a separation, and all that stuff we actually don't like about that world war - what we don't like about any war.

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epsilona01 t1_j8g9hvh wrote

Reply to comment by Bubbagumpredditor in The brain can rapidly detect and process fearful faces that are otherwise invisible to the eye. There appears to be a neural pathway for detection of fear, which operates automatically, outside of conscious awareness. by Wagamaga

I was in a very dangerous crowd crush many years ago. You saw it in people's faces first, then you could smell the fear. It's the sound of wrist's breaking that stays with you (don't hang on to people's hands).

I suspect they'll find a pheromonal component eventually, because the only time I've experienced the same smell since was at Waterloo Station on the morning of the 7/7 bombings. We all knew something was wrong, but at that moment no one knew it was a terror attack, but fear was in the air.

Unrelated, but the life lesson from the crowd crush was this. You can save you and one other person, that's it. Once I'd got the friend I was with off the floor and out of the crush, and turned around to help more people, we both just got sucked back in. Pick your person and get out.

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relbean t1_j8g9a3x wrote

Reply to comment by Feudamonia in The brain can rapidly detect and process fearful faces that are otherwise invisible to the eye. There appears to be a neural pathway for detection of fear, which operates automatically, outside of conscious awareness. by Wagamaga

It is not accurate enough to convey its meaning because its meaning is that the eye did not perceive the stimulus when in reality the eye did perceive the stimulus and the cerebral cortex did not perceive the stimulus. Those are two separate parts of anatomy and in a scientific discussion that distinction matters a great deal.

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livelylilac703 t1_j8g7x1i wrote

Reply to comment by Theletterkay in Chinese researchers have reported what they claim is the world’s youngest person diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, which may overturn the conventional perception that cognitive impairment rarely occurs in young people. by Wagamaga

I don’t mean to sound aggressive in my responses but even with intervention, there is no cure and it’s fatal. Intervention may slightly increase life expectancy, but even then, imagine an individual who is stuck in the body of a teenager but their brain is so deteriorated they can’t walk, talk, sit up, communicate, eat, or drink. That’s what happens at the end when you’re looking at this disease, intervention or not. I pray they find a cure.

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chrisdh79 OP t1_j8g7dwk wrote

Reply to Study on former citizens of East Germany sheds light on why people may choose deliberate ignorance by chrisdh79

From the article: A new study explored reasons why some citizens of the former East Germany chose not to view files that the Stasi, the notorious secret police force, kept of them when the archives were opened in 1991. Aside from claiming that the information is not relevant, most people stated that they wanted to avoid finding out that one of their colleagues or family members was a Stasi informant and that viewing those files would impact their ability to trust others. The study was published in Cognition.

Curiosity, the desire to obtain knowledge, is one of the defining traits of human beings. Yet there are situations when people willingly choose not to know. This phenomenon — deliberate ignorance — has been attracting a growing interest from researchers in various scientific disciplines.

When a society faces a fundamental transition, such as moving from war to peace or from dictatorship to democracy, people must find ways to interpret, remember or ignore past experiences and include that interpretation into the collective memory of the group in a way that allows the society to move forward.

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Feudamonia t1_j8g6m20 wrote

Reply to comment by relbean in The brain can rapidly detect and process fearful faces that are otherwise invisible to the eye. There appears to be a neural pathway for detection of fear, which operates automatically, outside of conscious awareness. by Wagamaga

>Just because the alternative meaning is illogical in your mind doesn’t mean the description is accurate.

Actually it does. Logic or being logical isn't subjective. We know for a fact that people do not have invisible faces.

Invisible to the eye means the quality of being invisible is determined by the eye rather than it being a physical quality of the object the phrase is referencing.

The title is accurate enough to convey its meaning.

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aRealAmateur t1_j8g670r wrote

Reply to A study in the US has found, compared to unvaccinated people, protection from the risk of dying from COVID during the six-month omicron wave for folks who had two doses of an mRNA vaccine was 42% for 40- to 59-year-olds; 27% for 60- to 79-year-olds; and 46% for people 80 and older. by Wagamaga

Not to be rude but, what a random hodgepodge of academic areas chiming in with only two institutions of health and medicine: Law, Economics, Business…with correspondence being directed to a postdoctoral fellow in Law…

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artinthebeats t1_j8g5z5e wrote

Reply to comment by zulu_candles in The brain can rapidly detect and process fearful faces that are otherwise invisible to the eye. There appears to be a neural pathway for detection of fear, which operates automatically, outside of conscious awareness. by Wagamaga

Gravity.

Inertia.

These are two things you feel without your eyes, built into the body that has different senses.

Apparently, this detection is being processed deep in the brain, in the amygdala.

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