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https://synergies.substack.com/p/you-are-probably-getting-brain-damage
Having read well over a hundred pages over dozens of studies to research this, I have to say, the situation doesn’t look great. If I am being honest, my greatest hope is that this is all just wrong – that some combination of perverse publication incentives, negativity bias, and plain bad luck have all conspired to create a sort of scientific hallucination, a literature built on a nonexistent phenomenon. Perhaps in 15 years nothing will have actually changed and I’ll look back on this Substack as nothing more than an exercise in cringe. It would be nice if that happened, but it doesn’t seem likely. The COVID-causes-brain-damage hypothesis combines mechanistic plausibility (infiltration of the nervous system and inflammatory actions) and is backed up by both in vivo animal studies (see the poor mice above), and population-level public health data. This isn’t some bro-science sales pitches, where someone trying to sell you a supplement points to a study of just eight rats. Multiple lines of evidence, at multiple causal scales, are converging on this idea.
Having read well over a hundred pages over dozens of studies to research this, I have to say, the situation doesn’t look great. If I am being honest, my greatest hope is that this is all just wrong – that some combination of perverse publication incentives, negativity bias, and plain bad luck have all conspired to create a sort of scientific hallucination, a literature built on a nonexistent phenomenon. Perhaps in 15 years nothing will have actually changed and I’ll look back on this Substack as nothing more than an exercise in cringe. It would be nice if that happened, but it doesn’t seem likely. The COVID-causes-brain-damage hypothesis combines mechanistic plausibility (infiltration of the nervous system and inflammatory actions) and is backed up by both in vivo animal studies (see the poor mice above), and population-level public health data. This isn’t some bro-science sales pitches, where someone trying to sell you a supplement points to a study of just eight rats. Multiple lines of evidence, at multiple causal scales, are converging on this idea.