Oh, I know very well this won’t be a popular post:
Long-Suspected Link Between Cats and Schizophrenia Could Be Real: New Study
NY Post | 12-8-23 | Marc LallanillaNew medical research suggests that owning a cat could double the risk of developing schizophrenia.
To reach that conclusion, scientists in Australia analyzed 17 studies published over the last 44 years from 11 different countries, including the US and the UK.
“Our findings support an association between cat exposure and an increased risk of broadly defined schizophrenia-related disorders,” the authors wrote in their analysis, published in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin.
“We found that individuals exposed to cats had approximately twice the odds of developing schizophrenia,” wrote the research team from the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research.
Schizophrenia is a complex mental illness that often runs in families, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Wait — the researchers didn’t do their own research? They only analyzed 17 studies done by others?
There’s a magazine called “Schizophrenia Bulletin”?
No comment. Dogs rule.
I touched a cat once and the next thing I knew I was standing in the middle of a huge landfill with my new metal detector I had gotten for my 13th Christmas from Montgomery Wards. They told me landfills are like huge Time Capsules and a person can find amazing things. I guessed an old rusted Swiss Army Knife wasn’t so bad.
Maybe they have cause and effect reversed. Perhaps, instead of cats causing schizophrenia, people with schizophrenia are more likely to associate with cats.
Aww heck, who do I think I’m kidding? Of course cats are the cause, they’re all Satan’s henchmen.
This revelation does a lot to help explain certain aspects of ancient Egyptian culture.
If you ask me, you’d be crazy not to have a cat.
I tell myself that cats cause schizophrenia but then I don’t listen to myself, he’s the idiot one.
I confounded everyone by being crazy before getting a cat.