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Occam’s Razor dictates that the correlation is due to increased climate change stresses & temperature swings impacting human mood disorders (the same way it cor

by shove 7y ago

Occam’s Razor dictates that the correlation is due to increased climate change stresses & temperature swings impacting human mood disorders (the same way it correlates with increased violence)

shove 7y ago
Could someone explain the down-votes? My hypothesis isn’t great but surely it’s better than aliens interbreeding with humans etc etc?
- thatcat 7y ago
  Because you quote occam's razor then give no simple direct mechanism of action. There is a big gap in how a few degrees average heat increase causes mood disorders. It's more likely, for example, the result of the ten's of thousands of unregulated synthetic chemicals produced, some of which are hormone analogues like PHB and which make their way into the water sources. Then since they're not regulated no one filters them out or monitors their levels regularly.
  - shove 7y ago
    Because it’s not about averages. It’s about wider ranges. Fair point on chemical pollutants.
- gus_massa 7y ago
  I didn't downvote it, but I guess it was downvoted because it looks like a joke. (Something like "This man is nut, climate change deniers are nut, let's make a joke about them all".) It looks like a joke specially if someone has not read the article and is only reacting to the title. (Note: I have read the article, I want my 5 minutes back.) Perhaps you could have written it more clearly. Try to avoid short comments. Something like: fake alternative comment> The author proposes that the increase of the abduction cases [1] is caused because the aliens[2] are concern about climate change. I think that an alternative explanation is that is the increased climate change stresses & temperature swings impacting human mood disorders (the same way it correlates with increased violence) and this cause the increase in the report of false[3] alien abductions." My notes: [1] Is there an increase of the report of the "abductions"? [2] If they live here and are somewhat related to the normal animals, are they alien? [3] false/fake/??? I'm not sure about the best word here. [4] I didn't like how you used the "Occam’s Razor", so I made the editorial decision to avoid it in the fake comment. I hope that my alternative is a good representations of your ideas, and I hope it's more clear that it propose an alternative explanation of parts of the article.

by shove 7y ago

Occam’s Razor dictates that the correlation is due to increased climate change stresses & temperature swings impacting human mood disorders (the same way it correlates with increased violence)

shove 7y ago

Could someone explain the down-votes? My hypothesis isn’t great but surely it’s better than aliens interbreeding with humans etc etc?

thatcat 7y ago
Because you quote occam's razor then give no simple direct mechanism of action. There is a big gap in how a few degrees average heat increase causes mood disorders. It's more likely, for example, the result of the ten's of thousands of unregulated synthetic chemicals produced, some of which are hormone analogues like PHB and which make their way into the water sources. Then since they're not regulated no one filters them out or monitors their levels regularly.
- shove 7y ago
  Because it’s not about averages. It’s about wider ranges. Fair point on chemical pollutants.
gus_massa 7y ago
I didn't downvote it, but I guess it was downvoted because it looks like a joke. (Something like "This man is nut, climate change deniers are nut, let's make a joke about them all".) It looks like a joke specially if someone has not read the article and is only reacting to the title. (Note: I have read the article, I want my 5 minutes back.) Perhaps you could have written it more clearly. Try to avoid short comments. Something like: fake alternative comment> The author proposes that the increase of the abduction cases [1] is caused because the aliens[2] are concern about climate change. I think that an alternative explanation is that is the increased climate change stresses & temperature swings impacting human mood disorders (the same way it correlates with increased violence) and this cause the increase in the report of false[3] alien abductions." My notes: [1] Is there an increase of the report of the "abductions"? [2] If they live here and are somewhat related to the normal animals, are they alien? [3] false/fake/??? I'm not sure about the best word here. [4] I didn't like how you used the "Occam’s Razor", so I made the editorial decision to avoid it in the fake comment. I hope that my alternative is a good representations of your ideas, and I hope it's more clear that it propose an alternative explanation of parts of the article.