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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jun 8

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Steve Stewart-Williams

      My ex was a biologist who was determined to find out why people with schizophrenia were disproportionately likely to be born in February. He thought it was to do with mothers with SAD producing excessive dopamine at important stage of foetal brain development but others differed.https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1005033132934848513 …

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      Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill
      Wow: Birth month affects lifetime disease risk (N = 1,749,400) https://academic.oup.com/jamia/article/22/5/1042/930268#86491997 … HT @NAChristakis 1. Association between birth month and lifespan/cardiovascular disease incidence pic.twitter.com/IbvOsNzJZk
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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jun 8

      Sadly, he died at 29 due to complications of the medication he took to control his schizophrenia. One caused him a stomach ulcer & another caused him not to wake up when he vomited in his sleep. RIP, Martin.

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jun 8

      He was one of the few schizophrenics who suffered (terrifying) visual hallucinations. Because he was a skeptic & rejected the supernatural, he saw things which could have been real - dead bodies & murderers & aggressive dogs.

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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jun 8

      He called the police once because he saw a dead body in our flat. I got in & convinced him it was a hallucination & cancelled them but obviously, they turned up anyway & demanded to be allowed to look around. He apologised to them & they were so kind.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jun 8

      Told him that they would much rather he called them when he thought he saw a serious crime or danger & it turned out to be a hallucination than not call them assuming it was one when it was real. I'd been rather anti-police upto this point (very young, bit radical) but not after.

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        1. Adam Kolasinski‏ @adamckolasinski Jun 8
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          Even in the USA, where we have serious issues of police brutality, the vast majority of officers are highly ethical & competent. Unfortunately, it only takes a few bad actors to cause a serious a problem, which is why we have one.

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