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Owning a Cat Could Double Your Risk of Schizophrenia, Research Suggests
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| 16 Nov 2025
| Rebecca Dyer
Posted on 11/16/2025 10:54:34 AM PST by fwdude
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Trust the science!
Polar icecaps melted by 2012!
Gender is a spectrum!
Two weeks to stop the spread!
It’s going to a long time before they earn their credibility back.
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posted on
11/16/2025 11:22:42 AM PST
by
proust
(All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
To: fwdude
I have problems with the personalities of every cat owner I know of or have ever known. I always find too many screws loose.
42
posted on
11/16/2025 11:23:04 AM PST
by
Wuli
( )
To: Wuli
I beg to differ. Any science that claims that a human can change sexes has impeached itself as a valid source of truth.
43
posted on
11/16/2025 11:23:23 AM PST
by
fwdude
(Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
To: fwdude
Mine is an outdoor cat that lives on the well sheltered porch with a super insulated (about 4 or 5 inches) heated house above the ground by the front door, with the heater bed wattage replaced to adjust to the season, from mere padding to a passive reflective body heat pad, to 5 watts, to 25 watts, to 40 watts during the dead of winter.
I feed and water the cat twice a day and in return it kills everything that moves in my yard, gophers, scorpions, snakes, harmless birds, field mice.
44
posted on
11/16/2025 11:25:02 AM PST
by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: fwdude
I’m telling you, Puff-Puff is out to get me.
45
posted on
11/16/2025 11:25:06 AM PST
by
lowbridge
("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times Editor)
To: bort
Yeah, is this one of those “the chicken or the egg” scenarios?
46
posted on
11/16/2025 11:28:18 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
To: fwdude
I’d have to be crazy to get a cat.
47
posted on
11/16/2025 11:28:55 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
To: fwdude
I’m just here for the comments about cat ladies.
48
posted on
11/16/2025 11:29:53 AM PST
by
Organic Panic
('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower.)
To: Wuli
""""""I have problems with the personalities of every cat owner I know of or have ever known. I always find too many screws loose.""""""
49
posted on
11/16/2025 11:30:17 AM PST
by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: fwdude
We had 8 indoor cats a few years ago. Down to two now. I feel fine. 😵💫 So does Mini Me.
50
posted on
11/16/2025 11:32:17 AM PST
by
MayflowerMadam
(It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
To: fwdude
“I beg to differ. Any science that claims that a human can change sexes has impeached itself as a valid source of truth.”
Where is the evidence the two science claims come from the same source???
51
posted on
11/16/2025 11:33:04 AM PST
by
Wuli
( )
To: fwdude
a cat is never Owned. It IS the owner
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posted on
11/16/2025 11:34:34 AM PST
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: alloysteel
“Cat ladies are in danger, they keep the cats near at hand”
I’d love to see a cat lady, or anyone else, keep a cat anywhere it doesn’t want to be.
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posted on
11/16/2025 11:35:46 AM PST
by
MayflowerMadam
(It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
To: fwdude
broadly defined cat ownership What is 'broadly defined cat ownership? Either a cat owns you, or it doesn't.
54
posted on
11/16/2025 11:38:42 AM PST
by
PAR35
(I)
To: fwdude
Now do schizophrenic dog owners.
55
posted on
11/16/2025 11:40:37 AM PST
by
CaptainK
("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
To: Kozak
Testing should be required in all cat hoarding situations.
56
posted on
11/16/2025 11:43:09 AM PST
by
Valpal1
(Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
To: fwdude
Which came first, the schizo or the cat?
57
posted on
11/16/2025 11:45:26 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
To: JayGalt
The apparent link between schizophrenia and cats is a toxoplasmosis infection from a parasite commonly carried by cats. As for correlation and causality, there can be no causation without correlation, so correlation advances the case even if it does not conclude it. As for cats, until recently, I was not a cat person, but at the moment, my black and white former stray is a few feet away sleeping on my bed.
To: Wuli
Where is the evidence the two science claims come from the same source???Right in the excerpt - "Psychiatrist John McGrath and colleagues"
Psychiatry is the same "science" that said someone who couldn't look in a mirror and determine their gender could be cured by chopping off body parts and creating fake different body parts.
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posted on
11/16/2025 11:51:36 AM PST
by
PAR35
(I)
To: fwdude
I don’t believe this. Neither do I.
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