MOS: Metformin and Long Covid

January 25, 2024 SciBabe 1

Why go through the trouble of conducting a whole other study when you can just ask the people who got those delicious free drugs if they’ll track any covidian symptoms for a year? Worst that happens is you find out a bit more nothing.

MOS: Dr. Evelyn Hooker

January 25, 2024 SciBabe 0

Hooker then gave those results- blinded- to a panel of clinicians and asked them to sort out the gays and the straights. Which was a thing psychological science was supposed to be able to do because these people had a real mental illness, right? Riiiight?

MOS: Gay Sex in the Wilderness

January 25, 2024 SciBabe 0

Approximately 10% of rams are exclusively into other rams. Another 20% are bisexual. It must be the liberal indoctrination from hanging out with all those goddamn sheep.

MOS: Dr. Ben Barres & Glial Cells

January 25, 2024 SciBabe 0

A trans man was attending a conference to give a talk. Someone was overheard saying “his work is so much better than his sister’s. There was no sister. That was work from before he transitioned.

MOS: Starvation Mode

January 25, 2024 SciBabe 0

RMR after weight loss can be a bit lower than in people of a comparable but long-term stable weight. This is referred to as metabolic adaptation, and that’s… probably starvation mode.

MOS: The Fermi Paradox

January 25, 2024 SciBabe 1

Out of nowhere, Fermi blurted out, “where is everybody?” His lunch companions knew he was referring to those long absent little green men.