• Contramuffin@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Here’s a fun game: describe your research/interest in a similar way that Fox/Republicans use to describe research. The more misleading it is from the actual research, the better.

    I’ll start: watch how tired mice get when they get sick

    (determine the mechanism of how microbial contact affects host circadian rhythms)

  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Why aren’t they televising it? They could fund the entire university. Heck, partner up with those sketchy betting apps and do studies on addiction

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      5 months ago

      Yeah this is fucking awesome, regardless of impact.

      I am, however, torn between the idea of roided up hamsters punching each other with boxing gloves and the knowledge of the reality that they probably just ate each other alive so after a certain point it was just animal abuse.

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    That seems to be so common of a theme in theirs… Testing narcotics on animals to make predictions of how they impact humans is constantly being used as a chilling and watching animals take drugs". The idea that there’s solutions to drug use that might be more effective than throw drug users into private prisons to do slave labor seems quite lost on these people.

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    Unchecked misinformation and algorithmic control of people’s eyes and brains will be the collapse of civilization before climate change does us in.