How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
October 12, 2014 12:05 AM   Subscribe

Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia? An evolutionary biologist at Charles University in Prague, Jaroslav Flegr, has pursued this theory for decades in relative obscurity. He believes his views may invite deep-seated opposition. “There is strong psychological resistance to the possibility that human behavior can be influenced by some stupid parasite,” he says. “Nobody likes to feel like a puppet. Reviewers [of my scientific papers] may have been offended.”
posted by Wolof (4 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, it looks like we've covered this a few times before... if there are any newer findings, an update sort of thing might work well, though. (Notice: They told me to say that no cats were involved in the deletion of this post.) -- taz



 
To be fair to the reviewers, everyone has head of toxo and once you get past that there's like a billion red flags here.

Also KITTIES ARE GUD, BUY MORE CATS.
posted by Artw at 12:24 AM on October 12, 2014 [2 favorites]


I knew it! Evil bastards! Luckily I am surrounded by dogs. They smell and ruin the house, but at least my feeble brain is organism free.
posted by greenhornet at 12:29 AM on October 12, 2014


I think that this is a dupe.
posted by drfu at 12:29 AM on October 12, 2014


You have nothing to worry about.
posted by biffa at 12:42 AM on October 12, 2014


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