Recent comments in /f/science

Sculptasquad t1_jcwzmg5 wrote

Reply to The neurophysiological underpinnings of malevolent creativity might vary by gender by tbroishere

"Maladaptive behavior can occur in members of either sex, but there are
often gender differences that arise. Research suggests that men are more
physically aggressive than women, while women prefer social and
relational aggression. Malevolent creativity, or using creative ideas to
lie, bully, blackmail, assault, defame, or play mean pranks on people
is linked to other maladaptive traits such as narcissism and
psychopathy."

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So now researchers use the term "gender" to denote biological sex? Great, this is exactly what the trans lobby assured us would never happen.

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Earthling1a t1_jcwz0jg wrote

Reply to Scientists find heatwaves at bottom of the ocean along the continental shelves of North America by Creative_soja

This is where the excess heat has been going for decades. Back in the 90's we hadn't really done any deep water temp assessments and we certainly didn't have historical data for comparison. I was auditing a discussion group with a bunch of Ph.D. candidates, looking at satellite data and watching them being all baffled about where the extra energy (insolation was known, radiative loss was known, delta indicated accumulation) was going. I (non-degree candidate and therefore scum) asked if they had looked in the ocean. They said it wasn't there. I think I invented the facepalm at that point. Water has a very high specific heat, and there's a f*kload of water in the ocean. We only started measuring deep water temps around 2004, and not extensively until within the last 5 years or so. All that energy that was stored (and is still being added to) back over the last half-century or so has been cheerfully flowing along in the AMOC at depth, and is now showing up where we can notice its effects. Just watch those glaciers, baby. We're coming up on the time frame for the industrially-warmed waters from 100 years ago to start working on the edges of Antarctica. Party time.

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aquabarron t1_jcwmhju wrote

Reply to comment by drm3rc in Specific cannabinoids revive adaptive immunity by reversing immune evasion mechanisms in metastatic tumours by Defiant_Race_7544

He could be, you don’t know. Either way, a call to authority is a weak rebuttal. If you don’t know enough to counter his assertion head on then you likely know less than him. It may be Reddit, but a user who provides seemingly informed comments like the one in question on a sub-thread of this kind of study might actually have an informed opinion. Reddit is a large community and their are thousands of scientists involved in the research of cannabis at the moment, it’s a current hot-topic of discussion, after all.

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ThePopKornMonger t1_jcwlnby wrote

Reply to comment by WillCode4Cats in A Swedish study found elite male soccer players are 1.5 times more likely to develop neurodegenerative disease compared to population controls. A previous study from Scotland suggested that soccer players were 3.5 times more likely to develop neurodegenerative disease. by Wagamaga

Never said that, meant more of like people wear em to down the grade of injury dar bud.

I guess I wasn't being clear.

Are we okay now?

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WillCode4Cats t1_jcwj0m3 wrote

Reply to comment by ThePopKornMonger in A Swedish study found elite male soccer players are 1.5 times more likely to develop neurodegenerative disease compared to population controls. A previous study from Scotland suggested that soccer players were 3.5 times more likely to develop neurodegenerative disease. by Wagamaga

What do you mean?

If you are curious, mouth guards protect teeth, but they haven’t been shown to reduce concussions.

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drm3rc t1_jcwhutg wrote

Reply to comment by aquabarron in Specific cannabinoids revive adaptive immunity by reversing immune evasion mechanisms in metastatic tumours by Defiant_Race_7544

Alright fine, then it’s a direct call out because the likelihood of a redditor being in the upper echelons of immunology and molecular biology like the authors, editors, and reviewers is slim. Unless they are amongst the prestige of researchers in this field, they have no right to be so arrogant and say “they got the wrong controls”.

Watch now, he’ll be a Nobel laureate or something

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sf_sf_sf t1_jcvy5xi wrote

Reply to A Swedish study found elite male soccer players are 1.5 times more likely to develop neurodegenerative disease compared to population controls. A previous study from Scotland suggested that soccer players were 3.5 times more likely to develop neurodegenerative disease. by Wagamaga

I also wonder what the "base rate" of neurodegenerative disease would be in this population WITHOUT headers. These is a group of healthy athletic people with good cardiovascular health so you would expect they would have a better base neurodegenerative disease rate. That 1.5x rate could be even worse if this cohort would in a vacuum have better brain health.

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