Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Crazy Cat People?

New research on a parasite commonly carried by cats – Toxoplasma gondii – suggests that it can be linked to mental illness in owners, particularly schizophrenia.
If you read the article, you will see that they are talking about a corollary between an increased risk of schizophrenia and cat ownership, when the patients were in cat-owning homes as children. But, as anyone with an ounce of knowledge of statistics can tell you*, correlation does not equal causation.

Researchers also believe that there is a correlation between pot-smoking and psychosis, but again, there is no proof.
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* The anti-vaxxers are immune to that point, thanks to childhood infections of Derpus Boobus. Or maybe they smoked too much weed.

1 comment:

BadTux said...

This is sort of like the correlation between drinking diet sodas and being fat. Or the correlation between carrying an open umbrella and rain. No, carrying an open umbrella doesn't cause rain. And most fat diet soda drinkers switched to diet soda *after* they became fat, so it can't be the cause of them being fat, duh (cause, by necessity, *pre-dates* effect). Yet people continue confusing correlation with causation. SIGH.