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Re:Upgrade Your Memory with a Surgically Implanted Chip by manjana on Sunday June 16, 2019 @02:50AM (#20194193)
Same goes for our theory regarding depression for instance. We say the cause is a chemical imbalance, but this has never been measured; same goes for many mental conditions since it's next to impossible to measure the causal element given it's happening inside the brain.
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Re:Upgrade Your Memory with a Surgically Implanted Chip by jdietrich on Sunday June 16, 2019 @06:56AM (#20194895)
>We say the cause is a chemical imbalance

"We" don't say that; pharmaceutical sales reps say it.

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

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Re:Upgrade Your Memory with a Surgically Implanted Chip by grumdan on Sunday June 16, 2019 @07:07AM (#20194929)
In particular, this shows that it's not that it's not been measured. It's been measured and not found to be an incorrect explanation of what's happening.
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