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Re:Alzheimer's microbiota induce deficits in cognition and h... by dappermanneke on Thursday October 19, 2023 @04:51PM (#37948550)
almost everyone on HN is interested in biology and especially biohacking but does not actually realise they have none of the necessary expertise to judge claims coming from that field; the level of discourse on these topics is sometimes worse than what I spot on reddit
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Re:Alzheimer's microbiota induce deficits in cognition and h... by kridsdale3 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @05:47PM (#37949161)
Pish Posh! My understanding of C pointers makes me one of the smartest people in the world! Why else would I have cleared the hurdle at $COMPANY during a tremendous bull market!

Clearly I can learn any discipline by mucking about for a few afternoons. What is a billion years of natural selection to my towering intellect?

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Re:Alzheimer's microbiota induce deficits in cognition and h... by renewiltord on Thursday October 19, 2023 @06:13PM (#37949467)
Lots of people said this about SpaceX and Tesla. Besides, our towering intellect did destroy millions of years of Small Pox evolution.

Turns out some people are smart. Other people who do the same thing are stupid but it isn't a marker.

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Re:Alzheimer's microbiota induce deficits in cognition and h... by hanniabu on Thursday October 19, 2023 @05:52PM (#37949216)
Yes, when a topic you're intimately familiar with comes up, it's unbearable reading the comments.

Worst part is when you try to set the record straight and wind up with -5 votes and a dead comment within minutes.

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Re:Alzheimer's microbiota induce deficits in cognition and h... by sseagull on Thursday October 19, 2023 @06:08PM (#37949419)
To be lovingly snarky: HN in aggregate is incredibly skeptical of academic research, claiming reproducibility crises everywhere, misalignment of incentives, brutal working environments whose results can't be trusted, only in mice, etc.

Unless it either confirms their existing beliefs, or is so technical that they don't understand it. Then the research must be ok :)

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