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  • I’m gonna copy my unedited response to this when someone posted this study as a Psypost link because I can’t be arsed to change it and it’s the exact same problem.

    I like the overall lack of bullshit psypost articles on Lemmy and would like to keep it that way.

    If you see a psypost article you should be suspicious.

    If you see a psypost article about a paper with a conclusion that you agree with you should be extra suspicious.

    EDIT: And now I’ve bothered to read the abstract of the paper and the first bit of the psypost article and they don’t say the same fucking thing.

    The journal article is saying they identified brain regions associated with fundamentalism by looking at brain lesions. There may be a seemingly obvious connection to say that the brain lesions caused the fundamentalism, but I don’t see them actually say that after skimming the full text. They focus on what regions are associated with fundamentalism using lesions as a tool to find them.

    The psypost article says in the first sentence the damage changes the likelihood of fundamentalism.








  • Yes. Exactly! The reason people keep bitching about Harris and genocide is because they hope something might actually happen about it.

    Biden was an absolutely terrible candidate (that I was going to vote for) and probably the only person who could lose against Trump. Because people constantly bitched about how bad he was they changed the candidate.

    Harris doesn’t get to use Trump as a not-as-bad-as screen, and given that we don’t have the option of not voting for her, everyone should be applying every other available form of pressure to discourage her from enabling genocide or otherwise maintaining the status quo.