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Scientists Discover a Virus That Changes the Brain To "Make Humans More Stupid"
concertina226 writes that researchers have found a virus that appears to reduce people’s thinking power and attention span. "Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Medical School and the University of Nebraska have discovered an algae virus that makes us more stupid by infecting our brains. The researchers were conducting a completely unrelated study into throat microbes when they realized that DNA in the throats of healthy people matched the DNA of a chlorovirus virus known as ATCV-1. ATCV-1 is a virus that infects the green algae found in freshwater lakes and ponds. It had previously been thought to be non-infectious to humans, but the scientists found that it actually affects cognitive functions in the brain by shortening attention span and causing a decrease in spatial awareness. For the first time ever, the researchers proved that microorganisms have the ability to trigger delicate physiological changes to the human body, without launching a full-blown attack on the human immune system."
E.religioni
Toxo isn't a problem and it doesn't affect people at all. It's actually a cure. A cure for *not* loving cats.
I can understand the confusion, but the effect was to make the brain "more stupid", not "less smart".
It's a different assumption on the base level of intelligence.
Can we just agree that all the news stations are incredibly retarded?
Why isn't it true? From what I've seen, they all offer their own flavor of propaganda, fluff pieces, and a pro-mass-surveillance (though they occasionally put on someone who is slightly opposed to it) agenda.
Which one peddles lies about death panels, calls scientists liars, has a psychatrist who diagnoses the President on air, and says slavery and jim crow werent so bad?
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
See? That's what we call Projection which is a form of denial of reality.
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
People who watch no news of any kind, are more informed about current events than viewers of Fox News. For sure you can expect certain kinds of distortion for left and right wing biases from every station, but Fox News takes viewers several steps beyond political slant, to full on fabrications that suit their storyline.
If you live with a woman who has lots of cats and some of the indicators of toxo, then-- because she is likely to be a risk taker-- you are at risk of becoming infected. This is true whether you are husband, lover, child, or room mate. This is because she is a risk taker, and will take risks with how she handles food, kitchen implements, etc that will increase your risk.
The risk of getting toxo cannot be controlled by you exercising good hygeinic practices. It also depends on everyone around you who handles cats to also exercise good hygeine. But those with toxo are the ones who will stretch the "5 second rule" to "less than a minute". And then comfortably serve you the canape that was just rescued from the floor next to the cat's litter box.
Not all cat owners are dangerous to your health. But those who have multiple cats and don't mind living in a house with a permanent faint odor of cat piss maybe should be regarded as dangerous.
BTW, I don't know for sure whether this is a gender-specific thing and I may be doing a bad in implying that this is a women's issue kind of thing. Anecdotally it seems that way, and the research seems to suggest that men are not as susceptible to toxo induced behavioral problems as are women. But I don't know that for sure.
Will
It's well known that Fox is the worst source of TV news in the US, but the others aren't great either. Even with NPR, which always tops the survey you're thinking of, (in terms of listeners being better informed), you still have to be able to read between the lines a bit. There's also a bit of self-selection going on in that NPR listeners tend to already be better educated than consumers of television news. And there's a lot of news that even NPR doesn't cover - although by carrying the BBC, some of those gaps are filled in. But educated people are more likely to get their news from many sources.
People who get all their news from television are not going to be well-informed, whatever the station. Fox is a different animal altogether.
-- sudon't
Air-ride Equipped
Well, it's a bit more then that.
MIllion is, techncally correct in that it's more then 1 million. But it very few show that break 2 million viewer. And many of those viewers are the saem ones that watch other reality shows.
Reality shows are cheap. This is why you have a lot of them, you need very few viewers to make a profit.
More people watched the lowest rated episode of the Beverly hillbillys then watched the highest rated reality TV.
"s have a lower intellect"
Why would it be lower, as opposed to the same?
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on