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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on December 30, 2006, 09:20:21 am
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Link to full article (http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/parasite-makes-men-dumb-women-sexy/2006/12/26/1166895290973.html)
A common parasite can increase a women's attractiveness to the opposite sex but also make men more stupid, an Australian researcher says.
About 40 per cent of the world's population is infected with Toxoplasma gondii, including about eight million Australians.
"Infected men have lower IQs, achieve a lower level of education and have shorter attention spans. They are also more likely to break rules and take risks, be more independent, more anti-social, suspicious, jealous and morose, and are deemed less attractive to women.
"On the other hand, infected women tend to be more outgoing, friendly, more promiscuous, and are considered more attractive to men compared with non-infected controls.
"In short, it can make men behave like alley cats and women behave like sex kittens".
Another study showed people who were infected but not showing symptoms were 2.7 times more likely than uninfected people to be involved in a car accident as a driver or pedestrian, while other research has linked the parasite to higher incidences of schizophrenia.
The next legal defense strategy. "It wasn't my fault I have Toxoplasma gondii and can't control myself".
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LOL Nem. This is news, I thought it was a given, that the prettier the girl, the Dumber the man. :D
Stephen
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I still prefer my version of the Goa'uld origin. :)
I wonder, if a vaccine could be developed for this then administered to prison populations and politicians what the effect would be?