Like the Romans used to drink from lead cups. Something like that.


(it appears that the moderator is removing any replies with which he disagrees. It might be a piefed issue. But all the removed replies are top level and upopular. Stranger coincidences have happened I suppose.)

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    14 hours ago

    Shouldn’t we see negative effects pop up in studies that compare readers to non-readers? Non-readers probably do interact with a bit more text nowadays, but AFAIK reading seems to have mostly positive effects.

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        That might be true in the short term, but we’ve had books and avid readers for centuries, and during this time we’ve seen positive effects. So if there are any negative effects, they must be so tiny that they’re neither noticeable nor measurable.

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          no, this comment did not get removed. only top level ones, only unpopular ones

          okay I didn’t know that about piefed. I suppose the other guys who got removed were on piefed too.

          but it’s suspiciously only top level comments that got removed. and only spicey unpopular ones.

          but yes, stranger coincidences have happened. I will abridge statement.