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Fake Mouse On Twitter Mocks Overgeneralized Scientific Research (twitter.com)
DevNull127 writes: Research scientist James Heathers is a postdoctoral research associate working on bio-signals and meta-science research at Northeastern University, with a PhD from the University of Sydney. He's also pretending to be a mouse on Twitter. And every tweet consists of the exact same two words...
Heathers retweets articles about scientific studies — usually articles with glossy photos and enticing headlines like "Exercise during pregnancy protects children from obesity, study finds." His tweets add the two crucial missing words. "In mice."
In this case a doctoral student at Washington State University measured a specific protein's level in the offspring of mice that performed 60 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise every morning during pregnancy — and in regular mice. On the basis of that he recommended "that women — whether or not they are obese or have diabetes — exercise regularly during pregnancy because it benefits their children's metabolic health."
The name of the Twitter feed: JustSaysInMice.
Other mouse-based studies turning up on the Twitter feed:
Heathers retweets articles about scientific studies — usually articles with glossy photos and enticing headlines like "Exercise during pregnancy protects children from obesity, study finds." His tweets add the two crucial missing words. "In mice."
In this case a doctoral student at Washington State University measured a specific protein's level in the offspring of mice that performed 60 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise every morning during pregnancy — and in regular mice. On the basis of that he recommended "that women — whether or not they are obese or have diabetes — exercise regularly during pregnancy because it benefits their children's metabolic health."
The name of the Twitter feed: JustSaysInMice.
Other mouse-based studies turning up on the Twitter feed:
- How Fatty Diets Stop the Brain From Saying 'No' To Food
- Reused Cooking Oil Ups Risk of Metastases In Breast Cancer Patients
- Keto Diet Not Effective, Causes Blood Sugar Problems In Women
- Growth Hormone Acts To Foil Weight Loss: Study
When you read those headlines, just remember to add those two words...
"In mice."
If you barbecue a Koran, people get killed,
but if you barbecue a bible,
nobody dies?
Please discuss...
Some people take their fairy tales too seriously?
Where I live - Georgia, USA - we can't buy alcohol on Sunday mornings because it was ruled that people go to Church on Sunday mornings and therefore, no alcohol sales. See, we had a lot of these Evangelical Christian cultists in our government . They're always screaming about religious freedom but have no problem forcing their values onto others. It never occurred to those kooks that there are Jews or other Christians who go to service on Saturdays or people who are not Judeo-Christian.
They don't care. They are fascists who hide behind the First Amendment to force their values on others.
I think one day, they will have us killed if we burn a Bible. Did you know that the USA is MORE religious than Iran? yeah! We're kookier than they are.
Discuss, yourself.
And remember, the belief in God is not backed by any evidence and as a matter of fact, the historical record shows that its a creation of man. Superstitious nonsense.
And what kills me is that 40% of scientists believe in God. Completely irrational. So much for the theory that science education makes one more rational or logical.