You better pack a few hundred thousand years of snacks for the trip.

The use of light years is very deceptive. People see a small number and assume it is a modest distance.

Remember, assuming it isn’t AI generated to begin with, most “journalists” today have almost no experience with the subject and get paid a pittance, assuming they aren’t interns to start with. Clickbait titles are incredibly bad nowadays and have become the norm. I have to laugh at how deceptive they usually are.

Seriously, people are getting it filtered through crap and assume the original info was crap too.

Red dwarf stars are tough environments though. Due to their internal high convection energy transfer mode they tend to erupt with massive solar flares, due to the much closer orbit required to be in the habitable zone this becomes a major issue. It could even strip atmospheres. Also, the closer orbit can result in tidal locking with one face always towards the star.

My apologies and I agree with you

You cherry picked one subject to make a grand hand waving argument about everything.

Clinical trials are paid for by the developer.

On the subject of the vagus nerve and the brain…

There has been a strong correlation between the vagus nerve and Parkinson’s. The vagus nerve goes from the gut straight to the brainstem, that has a neural pathway to the substantia nigra which produces dopamine for muscular control. People who have had their vagus nerve cut due to severe stomach ulcers (vagotomy) have been shown to have a significantly lower rate of Parkinson’s. One thought is that the nerve acts as a pathway for toxins to travel from the gut straight to the brain (Braak’s Hypothesis). There are also studies into dementia and a “silenced” vagus nerve.

Normally, the vagus nerve tells a part of the brainstem (the locus coeruleus) to spray the hippocampus with a chemical called norepinephrine. This chemical acts like a shield, lowering brain inflammation and protecting memory. If the vagus nerve is damaged or quieted by gut toxins, the hippocampus loses this protective shield, leaving it vulnerable to dementia damage.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31255487/

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/weakened-gut-brain-connection-may-contribute-memory-loss

https://theconversation.com/vagus-nerve-stimulation-shows-promise-as-a-way-to-counter-alzheimers-disease-and-age-related-memory-loss-269465

At the time people thought fats made you fat (calories in and out still matter though). Knowledge and our understanding of nature advances, it doesn’t mean there was some grand conspiracy. People 50 years from now may say “I can’t believe those fools legalized pot.”

Just because someone paid for something doesn’t automatically discount it.

Except it wasn’t really peer-reviewed.

It was. The editorial board appoints reviewers.

https://academic.oup.com/ijnp/article/29/1/pyaf080/8423597

At a time where rural dental care is poor to nonexistent and dental care is usually not covered under health insurance we shouldn’t be promoting MORE tooth decay.

No, it was originally noticed as a result of naturally occurring in water. Not at those concentrations and it was swallowed.

Some takeaways from the study:

One goal of the study was to separate external vs internal causes, that is things like car accidents and violence vs heart attacks and diabetes.

The gap appeared not just in those who identified long-term with either side but with those who flipped from one side to the other. Those who went right to left and left to right had better or worse outcomes respectively. The other factors that correlated with the gap the most were income, insurance, education then religiosity and marriage. Race, ethnicity and gender were the least correlated. Those who identified as moderates at some point correlated the least. Marriage and religiosity tend to correlate with longer lives (religion due to social support).

The negative coefficients in the first years of all-cause deaths show that liberals died at rates higher than or similar to conservatives in the early 2000s, although the coefficients do not statistically differ from zero. However, by 2020–2022, more conservative respondents (as measured in waves 3 and 5) were significantly more likely to die than more liberal ones.

Although ideology became more predictive of health during the 2010s, the relationship between politics and mortality became consistently significant only after 2020…A strong relationship appears: participants who identify as very conservative were about 1.144 percentage points…more likely to die in 2020–2022 than those who were very liberal. Unlike in the biomarker analyses, moderate, conservative and very conservative respondents showed worse health - not only the most conservative.

…even conservatives and liberals living in the same county have different health outcomes. These data cast doubt on entirely policy-driven explanations for differences in health outcomes.

Existing research shows that while confidence in medicine was once non-partisan, Republicans began to show less confidence than Democrats during the pandemic…

While both groups (left and right) were just as likely to have visited their PCP right aligned were less likely to trust or follow their recommendations. Right aligned were more likely to go to the ER but again, less likely to trust or follow their recommendations.

Taken together, these results suggest that right-leaning Americans - as measured by their vote choice, partisanship and to a lesser extent their ideology - are less willing to visit, trust and adhere to the advice of their PCPs. This is true even among people with chronic conditions that require regular contact with the medical system for management and appears across a variety of outcomes unrelated to care for COVID-19.

Birth rates tend to decrease with education…

I’d also add that a good proportion of the MAGA crowd are older males in rural areas that are poorly served by mental health, or healthcare in general. Left leanings tend to increase in urban areas. As you pointed out the culture is to “tough it out”. If they are single that is even worse as married couples usually have a spouse pushing the other to get health issues addressed. They also have a higher likelihood of suicide via firearms.

I’d say the hippie element that identifies with the left likely doesn’t live as long either since they share similar attitudes towards science and medicine and a love of conspiracies.

In other news, people who dislike seatbelts die earlier in accidents.

I think you can relate that to the whole idea of lifestyle comparison you hear about on social media. People posting glamorous vacations, shopping, cars, etc gives the false impression that everyone else is living better than you.

Yup. Everything is horrible according to Lemmy.

I block the worst offenders from news feeds. Helps a lot.