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One thing I always found interesting is that inducing a fever in autistic people, in some of them it will reduce the severity of their autistic characteristics.

by loceng 3y ago

Solvency 3y ago
citation.
- meindnoch 3y ago
  Google. https://hms.harvard.edu/news/cracking-fever-autism-mystery https://hms.harvard.edu/news/cracking-fever-autism-mystery
  - sp332 3y ago
    Your citation looks fine, but telling people to Google for citations is just pointing them straight at spam.
  - Solvency 3y ago
    "...in mice."
    - loceng 3y ago
      Confirmed in mice, observed first anecdotally in children with autism. I'm blown away we still as a society don't have a system where all of this information is quickly accessible in a sorted way by various trusted organizations that follow specific protocols that people determine how trustworthy they are.
      - c0pium 3y ago
        That would require us as a society to develop concrete solutions to determining who can be trusted. That’s obviously impossible, so we’re stuck with the process we have.
        loceng 3y ago
        It's actually the individual's responsibility to develop an understanding of how one determines what is trustworthy and what isn't trustworthy, and they they do their best to develop that. For example, if someone lies, they are caught lying, the evidence is presented but a person doesn't care or put any weight on that someone lied - well, they are going to rank that person or an organization they are running or still party to. I'd argue it's bad actors who don't want such a highly organized system that helps people discern easier, a sort of societal wide "fog of war" to make knowing closer towards the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth - harder; with AI generated images and video coming, I don't know how society will cope with such a thing - where "video evidence" could exist painting a horrific reputation of someone to destroy them perhaps not only economically but perhaps also weaponizing a mob to kill someone.
        Solvency 3y ago
        you mean like the "science" and "experts" paid off by the sugar industry to promote sugar for 50 years while demonizing fat?
        c0pium 3y ago
        Who was promoting sugar, exactly? This is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary proof.
roywiggins 3y ago
The one that weirds me out is that sleep deprivation can quite rapidly reduce depression, if only temporarily: https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2017/september/sleep-deprivation-is-an-effective-antidepressant-for-nearly-half-of-depressed-patients https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2017/septemb...
- salad-tycoon 3y ago
  I did this in my late young years. It worked. Got started reading into “polyphasic sleeping “ , we were deluded for thinking it could be a long term healthy schedule but it definitely seems to have given me a mood reset and cured my insomnia.
aszantu 3y ago
Some of them also respond to anti biotics

One thing I always found interesting is that inducing a fever in autistic people, in some of them it will reduce the severity of their autistic characteristics.

by loceng 3y ago

One thing I always found interesting is that inducing a fever in autistic people, in some of them it will reduce the severity of their autistic characteristics.

Solvency 3y ago

citation.

meindnoch 3y ago
Google. https://hms.harvard.edu/news/cracking-fever-autism-mystery https://hms.harvard.edu/news/cracking-fever-autism-mystery
- sp332 3y ago
  Your citation looks fine, but telling people to Google for citations is just pointing them straight at spam.
- Solvency 3y ago
  "...in mice."
  - loceng 3y ago
    Confirmed in mice, observed first anecdotally in children with autism. I'm blown away we still as a society don't have a system where all of this information is quickly accessible in a sorted way by various trusted organizations that follow specific protocols that people determine how trustworthy they are.
    - c0pium 3y ago
      That would require us as a society to develop concrete solutions to determining who can be trusted. That’s obviously impossible, so we’re stuck with the process we have.
      - loceng 3y ago
        It's actually the individual's responsibility to develop an understanding of how one determines what is trustworthy and what isn't trustworthy, and they they do their best to develop that. For example, if someone lies, they are caught lying, the evidence is presented but a person doesn't care or put any weight on that someone lied - well, they are going to rank that person or an organization they are running or still party to. I'd argue it's bad actors who don't want such a highly organized system that helps people discern easier, a sort of societal wide "fog of war" to make knowing closer towards the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth - harder; with AI generated images and video coming, I don't know how society will cope with such a thing - where "video evidence" could exist painting a horrific reputation of someone to destroy them perhaps not only economically but perhaps also weaponizing a mob to kill someone.
        Solvency 3y ago
        you mean like the "science" and "experts" paid off by the sugar industry to promote sugar for 50 years while demonizing fat?
        c0pium 3y ago
        Who was promoting sugar, exactly? This is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary proof.

roywiggins 3y ago

The one that weirds me out is that sleep deprivation can quite rapidly reduce depression, if only temporarily: https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2017/september/sleep-deprivation-is-an-effective-antidepressant-for-nearly-half-of-depressed-patients https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2017/septemb...

salad-tycoon 3y ago
I did this in my late young years. It worked. Got started reading into “polyphasic sleeping “ , we were deluded for thinking it could be a long term healthy schedule but it definitely seems to have given me a mood reset and cured my insomnia.

aszantu 3y ago

Some of them also respond to anti biotics