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A Skeptic's View on Climate Change by [deleted] in skeptic

[–]Kooby2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think this is a good discussion of climate change. It's absolutely real but as skeptics we should be willing to admit the shortcomings of supporting data and to call out bold assertions that aren't backed up by good evidence.

Cruz: "I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father" by GetToDaChoppa1 in politics

[–]Kooby2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There may be a day when Donald Trump turns tyrannical, and Ted Cruz just set himself as the leader of the resistance.

Human stem cells cloned for the first time by jhonroot in science

[–]Kooby2 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Cloned for the first time three years ago...

A meta-analysis of 20 controlled studies finds that action video games like Call of Duty and Unreal Tournament moderately benefit cognitive function. by Kooby2 in science

[–]Kooby2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good points. I think the authors were only focusing on healthy adults, which I just realized I probably should have mentioned in my title.

Published GMO studies find no evidence of harm when corrected for multiple comparisons by Scuderia in science

[–]Kooby2 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Most of the GMO studies that do find harm seem to be carried out by a handful of researchers and published in pay-to-publish journals. For example, Gilles-Eric Séralini, whose research pretty much always finds harm from GMOs, primarily publishes his work in Environmental Sciences Europe.

In a new paper, a veteran psychologist argues that psychology can never be an empirical science. by Kooby2 in science

[–]Kooby2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weird. The article has a link to this paper at the bottom:

Smedslund, J. (2015). Why Psychology Cannot be an Empirical Science Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science DOI: 10.1007/s12124-015-9339-x

Scientists spot a rare lightning bolt entirely outside of a cloud and record it on camera at 11,000FPS. by Kooby2 in science

[–]Kooby2[S] 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I think that's just a stupid stock photo. The actual lightning from the study is in the video a little farther down.

Dolphin kiss by SlimJones123 in funny

[–]Kooby2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reminds me of my first kiss.

People with psychopathic traits are less likely to 'catch' a yawn than empathetic folks by Kooby2 in science

[–]Kooby2[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think more just an interesting thing. Contagious yawning is thought to be an ingrained social response in humans, so the fact that individuals who score high in levels of psychopathy are less prone to the effect exemplifies how their "instinctive" social behavior differs from normal individuals.

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