Medical journals count, right?

  • CALIGVLA
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    154 months ago

    Demon possessions were mental illnesses all along? Who would’ve thunk!

  • kbal
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    124 months ago

    These Ghostbusters sequels just keep getting worse.

  • @[email protected]
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    64 months ago

    Title is hilarious. Authors still manage to handle the narrative delicately, esp in the summary.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 months ago

      From what I’ve heard from actual scientists, click bait also exists in academic work to increase the chance of getting published.

  • @[email protected]
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    64 months ago

    Conclusions Many cultures give rise to apparently genuine cases of ghost possession.

    Not a single one has, there is literally 0 evidence of a genuine possession having ever happened anywhere.

    • @[email protected]
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      84 months ago

      The patient is the one the possession is “apparent” to.

      The way they worded it indicates the condition (a delusion) is genuine, in that trivial efforts to assist the patient do not discard the “possession”.

      Like, I feel I’ve been in a haunted place before, but collected my thoughts and realized it was an old building with a draft and old framing. It still creeped me out for the rest of the night but I reassured myself that it was my social conditioning of what “creepy” was that was making me feel that way. If I couldn’t shake the fear, that would make my perception more apparent.