Recently, my phone updated without my consent (even though I turned auto updates off) and added Gemini

Like WTF Samsung

Yeah, but I’m a whole lot less likely to put down a completely mediocre movie than a 100 episode show, even if the show is absolutely amazing

As a gut who absolutely hates those “60fps 4k anime fight scene rerenders” I hope to dear god this isn’t used in the future

Wait, is the talos principle really that old already?

I recognise this art style

WHERE’S THE FUCKED UP PART I NEED TO KNOW

Bro after seeing one or two images from this manhua I decided to give it a shot and finished all 35 chapters in two days

Any others you’d recommend?

A lot of people here are saying that the more genetically similar you are to somebody, the more attractive they are (so long as you don’t grow up with them). I’m here to tell you that those guys are completely wrong

Studies have shown that (in other animals unfortunately, not in humans) that the more genetically dissimilar two individuals are, the more attracted they are, so long as they can produce viable offspring (aka they can have kids)

This study would also be done on humans, but that would be slightly morally questionable

This is an evolutionary trait in order to incentivise us to increase the gene pool when possible. You can imagine what would happen if we only rucked our cousins (look at the royals)

Source: am biomed student

Forever be based, onion

Easy. You go spy and just sit riiight next to their line of sight

Dw bro I agree. Cancer’s a bitch

So we’re both wrong

I looked at the studies, here’s my take on each one:

The Effect Of Percussive Therapy On Musculoskeletal Performance And Experiences Of Pain: A Systematic Literature Review https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10069390/ A literature review, which isn’t preferable when talking about a treatment in this context. It refers to a relatively small pool of 13 research articles, of which it says “all studies had limitations in methodological quality or reporting of findings”, which you don’t exactly want to hear, followed by “but still included contextually-rich details that contributed to the overall narrative synthesis”, which implies bias on the part of the researchers (why would you write a literature review on a subject with only 13 relevant articles, none of which had a non-limited quality of methodology or findings). Thus, I am excluding this article from the current topic

Acute Effects of Two Massage Techniques on Ankle Joint Flexibility and Power of the Plantar Flexors https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3794491/ Made in 2007, much too old. If this was used in a current literature review, it would be denied. Thus, I am excluding this article from the current topic

Therapeutic effect and safety of Tuina on sciatica https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9191340/ This is a protocol for a systematic review. The researchers are putting forward their methodology for a future research paper. Thus, it has nothing to add to the current topic due to it not showing any results.

Tuina for lumbar disc herniation https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7793356/ This is another protocol for a systematic review. See the above article.

Efficacy of Tuina in patients with chronic low back pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7077020/ This study saw applicants split into two groups: one where they were given tuina treatment by a trained professional, and one where they were given an education class on what they can do at home to help their chronic low back pain. The astute among readers may notice a couple problems with this protocol - there’s neither a placebo, nor a control group. The two groups they’ve made a basically receiving completely different forms of treatment, and are unable to be compared at all

It would be much better if the education group was removed, and the following groups were used instead:

First, we must define our independant variable as the type of massage the patients are subjected to

Thus, our dependant variable is the degree to which patients say their pain is relieved

The following groups would be used:

A group that receives no treatment

A group that receives a common form of massage, but not tuina and are told it’s not tuina

A group that receives a common form of massage, but they’re told it’s a tuina massage

A group that receives a tuina massage, but they’re told it’s not a tuina massage

A group that receives a tuina massage, and they’re told it’s a tuina massage

To finish off, I must ask-did you read through any of these articles? Of them, two weren’t even presenting anything, one was ancient, one was a heavily biased literature review, and the only one that could have been relevant to talk about didn’t even attempt to compare tuina massages to other massages.

You’ve wasted an hour of my life. Congratulations. I’m usually a bit more composed, but unfortunately I’m currently absolutely livid

It’s wonderful to hear that there are legitimate patting/tapping therapies available

Would you be oh so kind as to point me in the direction of the peer reviewed articles that classify them as such?

I thought skin cancer was the most common form of cancer

Okay, my b, didn’t know that

I also didn’t know that chromium is based on webkit, so yeah

Oh my God, that’s disgusting!

Why would you subject yourself to reddit!?!?

I’m always sceptical of critic reviews, considering

You should probably avoid chromium

Hey hey people

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