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Check out Robert Sapolsky's stuff on stress, disease and conflict in primates. Then go and brush up on your research. Short term exposure to pollution is relat
by macawfish 7y ago
Check out Robert Sapolsky's stuff on stress, disease and conflict in primates.
Then go and brush up on your research. Short term exposure to pollution is related to heightened inflammatory responses, which are in turn related to aggressive behavior... In humans and animals.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5874490/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5874490/
There's much more where this came from.
I say "related" because we are talking about complex systems here. There are likely feedbacks involved.
- dekhn 7y agohey I'm not disagreeing with exposure to pollution being related to aggressive behavior. What i'm saying is that there is no reason to believe that in this particular paper, that you can go from the epidemiological linkage results to a physical mechanism. Normally complex epidemiological observations are multifactorial, have multiple causes, and the associations are still only weakly correlated with those causal mechanisms.