Effects of Latent Toxoplasmosis on Political Beliefs and Values
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So basically the crazy cat lady theory has merit. Interesting.
Not only are cat ladies crazy, but they are also conservative right-wing authoritarians. Never would have guessed that. Thanks science!
My girlfriend and I have two cats and I'm the most anti-leftist person I know. She's a close third or fourth. Some of us exist.
I have a cat only because I live in an apartment and I don't think it would be fair to keep a dog cooped up in my apartment all day long. Cat's don't care as long as there is a warm sunbeam to sleep in, a clean litterbox, and food/water.
Toxoplasmosis can be prevented by washing your hands after cleaning the litterbox.
Vote Blue No Matter Who.
Suppress the First Amendment and cancel any speech I don't like.
Trust the "Science". Submit to unproven vaccines and as many boosters as ordered. Comply. Obey. Do not question.
I find this part particularly funny. they describe the perfect leftoid (tribal and conformist) and thrn claim its associated with conservatism
yeah total 100% pure conservatism here
so, cats, faggotry and whores. curiouser and curiouser, huh.
Up is down. Inversionists.
So, cats infect people with the libtard mind virus?
The Science strikes again.
Isn’t it only a worry if you have outdoor cats?
Do that many people really have outdoor cats
Yes because while Toxo must use cats at some point in its lifecycle it still needs to transmit to a cat in some way. This is normally done by driving rodents into "suiciding by cat" by removing any and all fear of predators resulting in death and consumption - which is precisely what the parasite needs. Prevent indoors cats from being exposed to such vectors and the chances of an indoor cat having Toxo drop to practically zero.
Mine are both indoor cats and I'm a raging anti-leftist. I think this research is great, though.
This study is bullshit. I know one of the authors, Jaroslav Flegr. He's a local lolcow who has spent the entire coof panic proclaiming himself High Prophet and predicting fire and brimstone unless everyone listens to him... by writing long letters addressed to his goddamn cat and publishing them on social media. The man is actually, legitimately fucking insane, and the "study" is the result of polls he ran on his goddamn facebook profile. I'm not making any of this up, I swear - I'm not high enough to think of something this dumb. It's a high school tier science project.
Here he is on Family Guy, btw. Even before the coof he was so crazy he made it on the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBRT4aLh1nI (He didn't discover toxoplasmosis, he just wrote about it a bunch because he loves his cats so much.)
Also fun fact: one of his older works, IIRC from the 90s or early 2000s, is literally a defense of Lysenkoism.