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I'm curious why these articles are posted so often on HN. Do a lot of people here have mood disorders? If so, would it not be better to look at the more obvious
by cpncrunch 11y ago
I'm curious why these articles are posted so often on HN. Do a lot of people here have mood disorders? If so, would it not be better to look at the more obvious causes -- lifestyle and stress -- rather than trying to pin the blame on some outside entity?
There really isn't much if any evidence supporting this hypothesis at the moment, and even if there is an effect it appears to be relatively minor.
- theseatoms 11y agoIt likely stems from skepticism regarding the mind-body connection.
- salgernon 11y agoThere seem to be a lot of bio / pharma readers here, and I appreciate their input into things like this where I might not have otherwise run into them. In the end medicine comes down to data mining and statistics, with a lot of computer science lineage. And for that matter, the whole startup scene exists on the wet side of the fence too. (And also, I suspect that a lot of us here self diagnose our mental state, thus making any information like this of interest.)
- Fomite 11y agoAs someone mentioned, there's a lot of bio/pharma/med people who read HN, myself included. Also, if this is true, you're getting closer to being able to 'hack' your own microbiome. Microbiota transplantation as a wetware patch is a pretty cool concept.
- Digit-Al 11y agoI can't speak for anyone else, but personally I really enjoy reading articles on interesting subjects - even if they have no bearing on my own life. That's why I love HN, because you can find interesting articles on subjects that you may otherwise never know anything about. Knowledge is like fast always on broadband, or a good smartphone. When you don't have it, you have no idea what it can do for you. Once you have it, you wonder how you ever lived without it.