Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works to ShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.works · 9 hours agoCould microplastics be eroding empathy in human brains?message-squaremessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up171arrow-down1message-squareCould microplastics be eroding empathy in human brains?Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works to ShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.works · 9 hours agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-text
It’s not a crazier idea than most of Kennedy’s. Someone should do a study. Or make one up, nobody checks anymore.
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·7 hours agoWouldn’t work in a serious scientific study, no. You’re absolutely correct. But since we’re setting the bar of inquiry at Kennedy levels…? I’m just trying to put aside my despair for a few minutes.
minus-squareWraithGear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-24 hours agoI am having to admit that human kindness and empathy only extends to one and theirs and to all others only competition and hate, that is the hallmark of humanity. The greatest trick ever performed was convincing anyone that it was ever not thus.
Wouldn’t work in a serious scientific study, no. You’re absolutely correct. But since we’re setting the bar of inquiry at Kennedy levels…?
I’m just trying to put aside my despair for a few minutes.
I am having to admit that human kindness and empathy only extends to one and theirs and to all others only competition and hate, that is the hallmark of humanity. The greatest trick ever performed was convincing anyone that it was ever not thus.