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Meta-Analysis Ties Cat Ownership to Schizophrenia

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Childless shrews vote Democrat. Childish shrews tend to own many cats. Childless shrews who vote Democrat tend to have the highest rates of mental illness of any demographic, based on quantitative data.

Let’s put the puzzle pieces together as best we can.

This week in “Why do liberals have that psychotic glint in their eyes?” we have a fascinating meta-analysis regarding cat ownership and schizophrenia.

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Via CatTime.com (emphasis added):

Recent findings from a study published in the Schizophrenia Bulletin have sparked discussions in the medical and pet-loving communities. Researchers have unveiled a surprising link between cat ownership and an elevated risk of experiencing schizophrenia and related mental health conditions. This systematic review and meta-analysis shines a light on what may be an underrecognized environmental risk factor for such disorders.”

Here is a summary of the study, published via Schizophrenia Bulletin (emphasis added):

We identified 1915 studies, of which 106 were chosen for full-text review, ultimately resulting in the inclusion of 17 studies. We found an association between broadly defined cat ownership and increased odds of developing schizophrenia-related disorders…

Our findings support an association between cat exposure and an increased risk of broadly defined schizophrenia-related disorders.

So what gives? I have written at PJ Media previously about the brain-infecting protozoan species called Toxoplasma gondii often found in cat feces.

Via Medscape (emphasis added):

Toxoplasmosis is caused by infection with the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, an obligate intracellular parasite. The infection produces a wide range of clinical syndromes in humans, land and sea mammals, and various bird species. T gondii has been recovered from locations throughout the world, except Antarctica…

T gondii infects a large proportion of the world’s population (perhaps one third) but uncommonly causes clinically significant disease…

Congenital toxoplasmosis usually is a subclinical infection

In most immunocompetent individuals, primary or chronic (latent) T gondii infection is asymptomatic. A small percentage of these patients eventually develop retinochoroiditis, lymphadenitis, or, rarely, myocarditis and polymyositis.

“Subclinical,” “asymptomatic”… meaning most infected childless liberal women don’t even know their heads are filled with toxic, mind-altering pathogens!

It’s not their fault they’re crazy, it might seem — aside from, of course, owning twenty cats packed into a 1,200-sq-ft. condo.

However, all that established, liberal depravity is admittedly a bit of a tangled cause-and-effect web to untangle.

First of all, there is probably a veritable cornucopia of reasons that the left is disproportionately mentally unwell as a demographic. Let’s not pin this all on kitties.

Then, on the cat question, while there is indeed the toxoplasmosis angle, there’s a paradoxical chicken-or-the-egg question here, vis a vis the undeniable social fact that unmarried liberal women suffer from various neuroses at higher rates than the general population, seemingly for a variety of reasons independent of their cat ownership.

So is it the cats causing the mental illness in unmarried liberal shrews in the first place, or does the mental illness induce the cat ownership, which then further fuels the schizophrenia via toxoplasmosis?

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What a mess!

And none of this accounts, by the way, for the social aspect of indoctrination into the liberal hive-mind, which itself is likely a progenitor of mental illness, protozoa, and cats notwithstanding.

“Screws fall out all the time. The world is an imperfect place.” — John Bender, The Breakfast Club


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