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Garbage science, funded by Proctor & Gamble so they can sell snake oil to worried older people. Absolutely disgusting. These "scientists" should be ashamed of t
by ProjectArcturis 3y ago
Garbage science, funded by Proctor & Gamble so they can sell snake oil to worried older people. Absolutely disgusting. These "scientists" should be ashamed of themselves.
- ed 3y agoYep! From the paper: > Conflict of interest > > ML and MY have received travel expenses and compensation following presentations at P&G.
- astrange 3y agoDoesn't matter. This is a copout for not reading the paper properly.
- oblib 3y agoI doubt that because I have personally felt the physical effects of fragrances, both good and bad, and they can be very noticeable. A 3x improvement maybe not really be all that surprising. Smell is a pretty strong sense when you're young but it doe's fade when you get older, especially after the age of 60. It may be rewiring/re-energizing neural connections that are getting rusty (so to speak). Should be pretty easy to test on one's self but you might have to be 60+ years old to get those results.
- ProjectArcturis 3y agoIf "fragrances" could improve older folks' cognition by 200%, it would be better than any of the $20,000/year drugs recently approved to treat Alzheimer's.
- oblib 3y agoAlzheimer's is listed in the "Topics" related to that article on that web page. An obvious next step would be a controlled test to see what happens with those folks. Seems to me it'd be worth a shot if you were close to someone dealing with that. I can't see how it could hurt.