@cachalot Kinda ironic TBH

they dont have stockholm, they're in their natural environment

Some people just want to see the rainforest burn

@cachalot

There is a lot we are just now learning about microbiology and parasitology

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2016/02/20/myth-mind-altering-parasite-toxoplasma-gondii/

OOF

A cat owner wrote that

Okay, tinfoil hat

`T. gondii doesn’t cause human behavioural changes`

BIG THINK

Cats wrote that through the "owner"

Yeah, it's a whole conspiracy, dude. We're all secretly ruled by cats

YOU CAN'T EVER TRUST THE GOVERNMENT, MAN

Except motorcyclists in accidents have been found to be infected after the fact

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source that claim, please

Not all motorcycle accidents are due to something fucking up behavior

https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2012/02/09/house-cats-said-to-lead-to-car-crashes-suicides-and-mental-disorders/

@cachalot my previous article debunks that

toxoplasmosis is known to change people

measurably

@SPOOKY Phil, Ruler of Heck they are largely due to riding a motorcycle, which many consider fucked up behavior to begin with

`The authors conclude that the hype train around this media-friendly microbe may have gone too far`

Cat people write articles.

`Toxoplasmosis was not associated with any personality traits, nor with rates of schizophrenia or depression. There was also no evidence that was linked to ‘poor impulse control’, e.g. criminal convictions, driving offenses, and accident claims on insurance. `

@cachalot Yeah, your article was written by a cat person

I gave you proof

Nowhere is safe from the tyranny 0f cat people

"proof"

and I debunked that proof before you gave it

Go cleanse yourself and get back to me

`The one possible exception was that suicide attempts were more common in T. gondii positive people, but this difference was only of trend significance (p=0.06). T. gondii also wasn’t correlated with IQ or other measures of cognitive performance, except on one memory test (the RAVLT, p=0.04).`

>oof

It has been linked to a lack of self preservation, the main effect of the parasite in all other mammals it infects, it's how it completes it's lifecycle

@cachalot I did before you even gave me the article, bucko

Parasites want to breed. By any means necessary.

Imagine fearmongering pets