A human body louse. In an experiment, scientists showed people 90-second videos — a medley of pathogens and ectoparasites — and asked the participants about their emotional and physical response.
JULY 28, 2021
NY Times: Ever Feel Your Skin Crawling? Maybe You Can Thank Evolution.
A new study suggests that humans have a distinct, itchy defense response to ticks and other ectoparasites.
NY Times: Ever Feel Your Skin Crawling? Maybe You Can Thank Evolution.
A new study suggests that humans have a distinct, itchy defense response to ticks and other ectoparasites.
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It's always fascinating to behold logic-challenged Fake Scientists spouting nonsense based on pre-existing cognitive bias -- in this case, the prior assumption that Darwin's Delusion is actually real. Because they never thought to question an underlying belief system (the first rule of good philosophy), everything built upon the original error must also be wrong.
According to Tom Kupfer of Nottingham Trent University in England and Daniel Fessler of UCLA a new "study suggests" (oh boy, here it comes) that the reason we get itchy is -- like a zillion other useful functions in our bodies -- due to blind random "Evolution" ™ -- the grand prior assumption which can only be built upon and modified, but never fundamentally, scientifically or logically examined.
Hazmat suits and hip waders on, boys and girls. Into the primordial ooze we go for some debunking of Marxist madness disguised as "science ™."
* Marx & Engels were fanatical promoters of their London contemporary, Charles Darwin.
According to Tom Kupfer of Nottingham Trent University in England and Daniel Fessler of UCLA a new "study suggests" (oh boy, here it comes) that the reason we get itchy is -- like a zillion other useful functions in our bodies -- due to blind random "Evolution" ™ -- the grand prior assumption which can only be built upon and modified, but never fundamentally, scientifically or logically examined.
Hazmat suits and hip waders on, boys and girls. Into the primordial ooze we go for some debunking of Marxist madness disguised as "science ™."
* Marx & Engels were fanatical promoters of their London contemporary, Charles Darwin.
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Kupfer & Fessler blindly assume Darwin's slime-to-fish-to-man "Evolution" to be true, and then interpret everything else based on that faulty foundation which has never been proved.
Slimes: In a way, nausea is our trusty personal bodyguard. Feeling nauseated is widely accepted to be an evolutionary defense measure that protects people from pathogens and parasites.
Analysis: That nausea is a "defense mechanism" is quite obvious. But why must it be "evolutionary?" Would not an intelligent designer build-in to His product such a self-defense mechanism? How about we prove the slime-to-fish-to-ape-to-man hypothesis first, BEFORE attributing nausea to the blind random force for everything?
Slimes: But vomiting is somewhat futile against a tick, an ectoparasite that latches on to skin, not stomachs. In an experiment that produced both stomach churning and skin crawling sensations — Dr. Kupfer and Daniel Fessler argue in a paper published on Wednesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B that humans have evolved to defend themselves against ectoparasites through a skin response that elicits scratching.
Analysis: Cognitive bias / prior assumption fallacy once again. The published paper argues that the reason we get creeped-out and itchy by things that may cause us harm is due to "Evolution" ™ -- again.
Slimes: Although some outside experts say more research is needed, the findings align with some understandings of the evolution of disgust.
Analysis: "More research" will require more funding. Ah, show us the shekels boys, show us the shekels.
Slimes: The disgusting investigation began in 2017 on the grounds of Chicheley Hall in Buckinghamshire, England.
Analysis: 2017! They wasted four years studying this bullshit?
Slimes: For the new paper, Dr. Kupfer and Dr. Fessler developed a study where they showed people a series of 90-second videos and asked the participants about their emotional and physical response. Selecting the videos was an art. “We didn’t want people just to say, ‘It’s disgusting,’” Dr. Kupfer said. “We wanted the physiological sensations that accompany the response: nausea, gagging, itching and scratching.”
Analysis: Oh dear. I can see where these sick twisted quackademic bastards are heading already.
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Nauseous, itchy, grossed out -- "Evolution" did it.
Slimes: So Dr. Kupfer along with Sonia Alas and Tiffany Hwang, then undergraduate students at U.C.L.A., pored through YouTube. They watched and debated for hours in order to select the most rank and vile footage possible. Many options were too weak, such as footage of “mildly moldy food,” Dr. Kupfer said. “We wanted feces, we wanted some sort of infection,” he clarified.
Analysis: "We wanted feces," eh? Nice. That's what your kids learn in our hallowed institutions of "higher learning."
Slimes: Dr. Kupfer’s dream came true. The final clips included a kitten riddled with fleas, a nightmarish bed bug infestation and a beauty shot of a mosquito sucking blood. The final pathogen clips included meat pulsing with maggots and an infected arm lesion oozing pus — Dr. Fessler called it the “pus volcano” — and a clump of earwax as dark as an asteroid.
Analysis: It really does sound as though Kupfer and Fessler (both names sound, you know) actually enjoyed putting this filth on film -- sort of like little boys amusing each other with the sound of their farts.
Slimes: The video that the researchers found most disgusting — titled “Dirty festival toilets” has since been removed from YouTube.
Analysis: Obsessed with excrement. Now I believe that their juvenile enjoyment over this "study" was actually sexual in nature. Not kidding either.
Slimes: The researchers conducted essentially the same experiment three times surveying in total more than 1,000 people. In all three surveys, participants had distinct reactions ....
Analysis: They actually needed to observe "more than 1,000" subjects in order to conclude that shit-stain videos of overflowing porto-potties and maggots boring their way through a raw steak make people uncomfortable???
I've heard enough of this scatological sophistry. Quackademics truly are crazy --- and sick!
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1. "We wanted feces." // 2. Meat covered in maggots. // 3. Pus shots.
The learned evolutionary scholars "discovered" that viewers, when subjected to such vile videos, became itchy or nauseous. Brilliant!
1. "We wanted feces." // 2. Meat covered in maggots. // 3. Pus shots.
The learned evolutionary scholars "discovered" that viewers, when subjected to such vile videos, became itchy or nauseous. Brilliant!
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