• Silverseren@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Ah, another one of the “we found something in mice and that totally means it happens in humans” pseudoscience studies. Though we can probably blame the press for making such claims that the studies do not, unless this is one of those studies made by the known pseudoscience “scientists” like Seneff.

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      11 months ago

      The title used by the reporter:

      A Popular Sweetener Was Linked to Increased Anxiety in Generations of Mice

      The title of the original publication:

      Transgenerational transmission of aspartame-induced anxiety and changes in glutamate-GABA signaling and gene expression

      I did not read the latter so I cannot vouch for it, but the former is most definitely click bait, through and through, from title to content. I mean, here we are talking about it and sharing the link so… they accomplished their purpose, and why should they care what happens afterwards?

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        So they’re saying that it’s epigenetically transmitted? That’s interesting. What mechanism are they suggesting?

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          I just clicked twice to find the article title, and don’t have time today to actually read through it… but it could be any number of things, including too early in the investigation to know, but we’ll have to read it to find out! :-D

          Edit: okay so I did look (free full text here), and they don’t seem to know so precisely, except it transmits to grandchildren via the father, so like it could not be microbiome, it must be something in the sperm (even if something else also happens in the eggs too).