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[โ€“] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They do link to the actual study, which does not throw up any immediately obvious signs to be cautious for me, but I also couldn't do the detailed work of deeper research myself. They reference a hypothesis that preceded the study, which they were trying to test with this. I don't know if this is a case of bias or even manipulation at work, but at least at a superficial glance, it doesn't immediately scream "total hacks doing unscientific things."

I just checked the study and it's interesting but limited - they only tested this on female mice (not males), with a small sample size (10 mice per group), and the mice were tripping balls during the experiment based on their "head-twitch response" measurments lol.