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Topic_Professional t1_j8idwxq wrote

Reply to comment by epsilona01 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 smelled it too after a violent robbery at the business I worked at in my early 20s. The only thing I can compare it too aside from body odor is the fishy smell when a dog needs to have their anal glands expressed, although the fear smell wasn’t as fishy awful as the dog.

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airduster_9000 t1_j8iawyz wrote

Reply to comment by T1Pimp in Study on former citizens of East Germany sheds light on why people may choose deliberate ignorance by chrisdh79

Yes - I immediately had the same thought. Its rare religions people want to talk about their religion, its history, its purpose, its meaning and what their beliefs really are.

But this is only a thing because people are almost always introduced to religion when they are children and accept everything as the truth no questions asked.

If religion was introduced as another "theory" about life/world/society when you are 12+ like most other theories (that are actually based in science and observation) - instead of being presented as "the ultimate truth" to a clueless child from its parents - religion would play a much smaller part in the world.

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slo1111 t1_j8iap44 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

They were referring to the fact that mortality for non-covid reasons was lower in the vaccinated versus the non-vaccinated which suggests there are other hidden variables as one would not expect the vaccination to have any impact on non-covid related deaths, so they used statistics to adjust for that anomaly.

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SecretAdam t1_j8i8ul3 wrote

Reply to comment by SpacedOutKarmanaut 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

This article is not some Gawker blog spam, it has 10 authors and cites 44 sources. I know you did not read it like everybody else in this thread but to dismiss it outright based on one confusing sentence is very lazy and cynical.

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ambrosius-on-didymus t1_j8i8qzm wrote

Reply to A study found that CBD "exerted anti-cancer activity by reducing epithelial-mesenchymal transition and causing cell cycle arrest." by OregonTripleBeam

I worked in a research lab before medical school that looked at this. Long story short, CBD (and actually CBD + THC more so) worked great at killing (or arresting the growth of) cancer cell lines in culture. Its effect was much smaller/did not give statistically significant results when you used primary tissue from actual tumors and/or used a mouse model.

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AadamAtomic t1_j8i8q6p wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] 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

>study does not define the threshold between visible and invisible "fear factors"

Indeed it does and even mentions the point of sublimity and consciousness. You either see it, or you don't. It's self explanatory. Visible or invisible.

>nor does it attempt at all to determine at what point those features are indeed visible.

Whenever you consciously notice the features change....again... It's a literal word and self explanatory.

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Harsimaja t1_j8i8ps5 wrote

Reply to comment by moredinosaurbutts 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

The people who cross the 1 mile mark in a marathon first are also more likely to get from the 1 mile mark to the 2 mile mark fastest. The causes - buildup of tau proteins and/or whatnot - are probably developing faster in general.

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