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Owning a Cat Could Double Your Risk of Schizophrenia, Research Suggests
Science Alert ^ | 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.


41 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.)
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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 ( )
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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)
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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.))
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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)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.))
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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)
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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 ( )
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To: fwdude

a cat is never Owned. It IS the owner


52 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))
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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.


53 posted on 11/16/2025 11:35:46 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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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)
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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” )
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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!!!)
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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? )
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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.


58 posted on 11/16/2025 11:46:56 AM PST by Rockingham
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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.

59 posted on 11/16/2025 11:51:36 AM PST by PAR35 (I)
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To: fwdude

I don’t believe this. Neither do I.


60 posted on 11/16/2025 11:51:49 AM PST by GreenHornet
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