• maria [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    so, as far as i understand it:

    • either dead fish are geniuses
    • or every single MRI result we ever got is bs and thus thousands of papers using them as a main component are invalidated

    do i get that right?

    if so, mygosh, i gotta get myself a dead fish to see if im faking depression or not.

    maybe its an LM type situation: it doesnt matter if its fake “roleplaying” or not, the actions are what matters.

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      5 days ago

      Not all MRI studies, just a large number of particularly lazy ones. Unfortunately lazy journalists pick up the lazy science and so these studies tend to be really popular in lazy clickbait journalism.

      Basically there’s still good science, as well as a parallel economy of bullshit from people who have long ago stopped giving a shit.

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      do i get that right?

      Yes.

      i gotta get myself a dead fish to see if im faking depression or not.

      No, no, not like that.