A famous example of correlation not being causation was "ice cream causes skin cancer", because in the past ice cream was eaten outside on hot days mostly, so the more people had the more likely they were to be in the sun.
This is that.
Doing a five minute Google dive on Alexis J. Cowan, PhD, I can't tell if this is a conscious scam or if the cheese has legitimately slid off her cracker.
It’s not the point of what you were saying, but I’ve never heard the phase “the cheese has legitimately slid off her cracker” and it made me laugh out loud. Thank you.
It’s a conscious scam. Looking at her IG she has a linktree where she is selling and marketing shit. There is a legit Alexis Cowan who graduated from Orinceton and is a post doc at UPenn. She’s clearly was a part of a team at Princeton doing a shit ton of research according to Google Scholar.
People like her just boil my blood. They abuse the science and use it to scam people. While others of us try to maintain a shred of moral standing about what we know and don’t. * I am not a scientist, I’m just someone who applies the science.
Yeah, she seems to be a real person. I guess my discomfort comes from watching a couple friends slide into legitimate schizophrenia.
When I see someone who has been tethered to planet earth in the past suddenly seem to come unmoored, I’m like “Oh no, not again… or, wait… is this a bit?”
2/ I’m watching her on a podcast and they are talking about astrology. Just because she knows one field does not mean she knows others. She clearly lacks skepticism.
1/ Yeah schizophrenia is so devastating. These are the people I’ve worked with for the past 30 years. While I would not rule out a serious mental illness (SMI) in this case, that’s a low probability event.
Protecting yourself against solar radiation causes cancer? I guess these are the same people who think vaccines cause disease, so maybe it makes sense to them.
It's not an uncommon believe among science deniers. It basically boils down to the idea that since sunlight is natural and essential to life on Earth, it's therefore impossible for sunlight to be harmful in any way.
I would like to put them in a room with too much oxygen and then see what they have to say... Or too much water.. Or fire.. all of those essential for life.
I think their silly reasoning is that our ancestors without sunglasses used to think, “it’s too bright out here, my eyes hurt” and go inside. Thus reducing their risk of sunburn and skin cancer. Ignoring the centuries of long sleeves and hats
I share this sentiment... just imagine how strong humanities feet would be by now if we didn't pussy out and start swaddling them in shoes thousands years ago? The decadence of the past has lead to the weakness of the present.
If we took everyone on Earth... and chucked them all out of planes... left the survivors alone to breed and rebuild... then chucked all of their children out of planes... eventually... I think we'd be able to pull it off.
All it takes is for one big daddy flappy to be born due to random mutation and he will be pulling down so much post-plane pussy his kids will glide on to a bright new future. Earth belongs to the Squirrelfolk now... if only we had stopped the Plane People sooner!
Some people think staring at the sun is "beneficial", letting them "absorb the energy" somehow, so they think anything blocking light is bad regardless.
It's been around since the 20th century or earlier, and as recently as 2009 a group of churchgoers went blind doing it.
