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There was also a pretty famous study w/ mice I believe. One of them had a good world w/ plenty of food, plenty of toys to play with and ample people to hang out with and have sex with. They had two feeding tubes, one contained drugs and other didn't. The mouse repeatedly took the drug free version. Then they created a shit mouse world. I think it was just overcrowded and didn't have any toys or that shit they borrow in. Low and behold the mouse in the shit world chose the feeding tube w/ the drugs.


This study has been widely debunked as junk science


To help others that may be looking, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park is a good read on it.

Calling it junk science is probably overly stated. Seems the largest confounding fact is that different strains of rats have different propensities to addictions. I can see why that would be a scary thing to look at in humans.


> I can see why that would be a scary thing to look at in humans.

I don’t get it, are you say because of race? Wouldn’t that be more interesting to know that is the case that scared of looking into it?


Eugenics and ancillary fields are rather hazardous historically? I can't claim there isn't something there, but it mostly leads to racism.


And you don’t think it would be useful to know that a certain percentage or a certain group is more or less likely to be at risk from something?

There is one thing about making decisions that are unfair. There is another thing to bury your head in the sand because someone might be offended.


Again, I can't say there isn't something there and to that. I can say that it almost always runs straight to racism. Such that I can understand the refrain from funding a lot of those investigations.




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