Reddit scienceSaturday, October 3

Many say SIDS is often a gentle label for accidental suffocation to spare grieving parents. Others note SUID is the umbrella term and SIDS means a death left unexplained after investigation, sharing losses despite safe sleep and citing genetic causes.

Some question co-sleeping risks, citing Japan's low SIDS rate and asking for socioeconomic controls. Replies point to firm futons, slimmer parents and different death coding. Some outline "safe co-sleeping" rules, while clinicians insist safe sleep has no downside.

Users argue US parents lack support, with no paid leave and costly childcare, leaving exhausted parents prone to unsafe choices. Strict guidelines are blamed for sleep loss and postpartum depression. Fixes suggested include free cribs, baby boxes and night nurses.

Commenters said vaccines are victims of their own success: once diseases vanish, people doubt they were ever a threat. Examples included polio's iron lungs, past child deaths, returning measles outbreaks and skeptics dismissing COVID excess-death data.

Some called the finding obvious, but others said each vaccine and pathogen needs its own data. The Victoria study estimated about 315k infections, 33k hospitalizations and 4.9k deaths averted during Delta, with half of averted infections due to indirect protection.

Many blame social media and addictive engagement algorithms rather than the hardware. Others say lockdowns are easy to bypass. Some liken the issue to unregulated alcohol and urge laws, while critics warn that age verification threatens privacy and favor banning harmful features instead.

Commenters stress the study shows correlation, not causation. They note that phone owners were lower-income and possibly heavier, and they question parental involvement as a confounder. Some say "ED symptoms" is defined too broadly, while others defend the criteria, citing orthorexia and OSFED.

Many argue the Republican-controlled Congress has no incentive to check a president from its own party and fears being primaried. Others call it autocracy or fascism and mock "small government conservatives." Some note red seats could flip in November.

Users question why the electorate re-elected Trump, arguing public opposition is shallow: Republican voters dislike his actions but won't vote Democrat. Others say Project 2025's Schedule F removed the "adults in the room" who restrained his first term.

Commenters cite Gilens and Page's research showing economic elites drive policy, a problem they say gerrymandering and Citizens United have worsened. Others propose updating the Constitution's loopholes and norms or adding a parliamentary-style no-confidence vote.

A social services worker says kids awaiting ADHD or autism assessments often need CPTSD evaluation too. Many share late diagnoses and misdiagnoses. Some found trauma-informed therapy life-changing, while others only progressed after an AuDHD diagnosis.

Users fear women and POC will be dismissed with "it's just trauma." Many say living unsupported with autism or ADHD, through sensory overload and dismissal, is itself traumatic, so the conditions often coexist. Trauma is framed as the lasting wound, not the event.

Some say CPTSD lacks DSM recognition, while others cite its inclusion in the ICD. Critics fault the letter's heritability reasoning and blame career incentives for too many overlapping diagnoses. One likens its directive therapy advice to ABA.

Many commenters mocked the findings as common knowledge, citing the ACEs study and Pierre Janet (1889). They called the research wasteful, rage bait or citation farming, and argued that funding should go toward treating childhood trauma instead.

Researchers countered that readers only skim PsyPost headlines. The study's novelty lies in examining the mechanisms linking trauma to suicide risk, which matters for prediction and prevention. Others argued that questioning "obvious" claims is central to science.

One user described ending 26 years of suicidal ideation after a breakthrough about feeling trapped as a child, and urged others not to give up. Another, with ADHD and bipolar 2, described worsening ideation and two years of failing to find a therapist.

Vectored vaccines using canarypox are already used in cats for rabies and feline leukemia, offering strong immunity and better safety than killed vaccines. A reply praises live vectors for mimicking threats the immune system evolved to fight.

Vectored vaccines could be given orally or nasally, or even made contagious for herd immunity, with negligible reversion risk. At least two feline rabies trials reportedly failed when unvaccinated controls resisted infection, possibly due to vaccine spread.

Users noted the eyesalve damaged S. aureus membranes, disrupted biofilms and bacterial communication, and slowed resistance compared to antibiotics. Some doubted it would stay effective under modern overuse, while others saw promise for topical uses like MRSA skin infections.

Commenters marveled at how medieval healers devised the recipe. Others noted garlic, onion and wine were known antimicrobials and that bile reflected humoral theory. Jokes about black bile, leeching and plague doctors followed.

Users cynically debated whether a centuries-old remedy could be patented, suggesting synthetic analogs or orphan drug loopholes like colchicine's. An infectious disease pharmacist doubted near-term impact, citing the need to isolate active molecules, safety testing and long timelines.

A left-handed user asks what faster right-hemisphere aging means for lefties. Another notes left-handers aren't left-brain dominant. The original poster replies that this is exactly why they're asking, since lefties may rely more on the right side.

One user speculates that heavy doomscrolling might cause more glycation in the brain's image-processing side, which could explain why the right hemisphere shows more signs of aging.

Users mock the recurring cycle of string theory being declared "back" and then "over," with punny replies about "yarn theory," "dental floss theory," and having "no strings attached."

A commenter criticizes the article's hedging language ("might," "could," "perhaps") as clickbait-style coverage of unproven theories. Another asks whether evidence beyond high-energy neutrinos without accompanying photons was proposed.

Users joke that the film Interstellar already covered black holes and extra dimensions, quipping that scientists should watch more movies.