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Could microplastics be eroding empathy in human brains? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's not a crazier idea than most of Kennedy's. Someone should do a study. Or make one up, nobody checks anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would have to use historical samples

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The stressors and demands on people a single generation separate are so vastly different that it would not work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.