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Has any actual research been done on this? I don't see why people think it's obviously false.
by Alex3917 12y ago
Has any actual research been done on this? I don't see why people think it's obviously false.
- artie_effim 12y agoYes - the classic Morbidity Rates of proto-Altaic ( Haplogroup O2b* (P49), Haplogroup D-M174) Due to Mechanically Generated Localized Atmospheric Disruption And Circulation study is a must read.
- kalleboo 12y agoQuoth Wikipedia: "There are no verified cases of the alleged phenomenon" There's also the fact that this phenomenon has never been observed outside of South Korea. People around the world sleep indoors with fans on every day.
- Alex3917 12y ago> There are no verified cases of the alleged phenomenon You could say the same thing for SIDS, but most people in the west accept that it exists. > People around the world sleep indoors with fans on every day. Then surely some of them must die in their sleep, so it shouldn't be that difficult to do a study. It's one thing to say that no research has been done to study whether people who sleep under fans are more likely to die in their sleep, or to say that the South Korean belief is unjustified given the lack of evidence, but to say that it's 'obviously false' strikes me as being a little bit racially tinged.
- theseoafs 12y agoSo we ought to do a study on all cultural superstitions just so we don't seem racist? Why don't you conduct the study on fan death, and I'll take care of the study to see whether Bloody Mary is real?
- kylebgorman 12y agoFor something to not be "obviously false", I expect an intuitive mechanistic just-so story. So, how could fans, operating within standard tolerances, in closed rooms, possibly cause deaths? There is probably a just-so story that meets this standard, but none has occurred to me.