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Medical journals count, right?

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[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 8 months ago

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

[–] kbal@fedia.io 12 points 8 months ago

These Ghostbusters sequels just keep getting worse.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 8 months ago

Exorcism resistant ghost possession sounds like the most non-scientific way of saying "antibiotic resistant bacteria."

[–] ____@infosec.pub 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

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

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 8 points 8 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.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago

You misread that, "apparently" is an important word in that sentence.

[–] raynethackery@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Lucky Brits. The drug is not approved for us in the US, so American ghosts are safe.

[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Sigh….. We’re never leaving this planet.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago