... "I always assumed God just hated psychiatrists and wanted them to be miserable. But another possibility is that extreme individual variability in neurosignaling pathways is a defense against parasite manipulation." -- Both are probably true.
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... "... sometimes the body communicates with itself by messages written with radioactive ink on asbestos-laced paper, in the hopes that it’s killing itself slightly more slowly than it’s killing anyone who tries to send it fake messages."
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... "There are a few parasites that can manipulate human behavior – rabies definitely, toxoplasma maybe – but overall we are remarkably safe." -- This is almost certainly the most cordycepted statement Scott has ever made.
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Curiously his blog posts seem to have less comments on it than I remember a few years ago, anyways great read
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@fioraesoterica perhaps our bodies are so complicated to frustrate parasites
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