Omg I am LOVING this story TL:DR - it is not a study, published in a journal dedicated to unusual hypotheses, and not really "from a major university" 1/n https://twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1383218165165936643 …
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11/n (In the journal's defense, they do also put out lots of less fringe hypotheses, they appear to take seriously the idea of giving everyone's ideas a forum for discussion)
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12/n As to the Stanford connection? Well, the author appears to be a physical therapist at a hospital near Stanford that has an affiliation for teaching purposes with the universitypic.twitter.com/XentFPtpUH
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13/n We can split hairs, but I'm not sure this qualifies as saying that the study is produced by Stanford
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14/n Anyway, regardless of what you think about masks, the paper has numerous errors and is probably not a useful resource for determining whether to use them or not
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15/n None of this has stopped anyone citing the "study" as evidence of anything, of course, because no one checks the facts of things they agree with!
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I think there’s some validity to a quantum theory of consciousness given that it’s probably ultimately a product of deterministic prior states, but as far as I’m aware there is currently no way to study or articulate that lol
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