Skin Patch Treats Children’s Peanut Allergies: Two-thirds of children wearing peanut skin patches were safely desensitized to this common kid allergen. #peanut #allergy #patch #desensitization #immunotherapy #viaskin
https://www.instagram.com/drhowardsmithreports/reel/DHWmcgnMxf3/
The Power of #Repetition
#Illusory Truth Effect: Repetition increases the likelihood of belief, even in falsehoods.
Why it works:
Familiarity: Repeated information becomes more familiar and is seen as more credible.
Cognitive ease: Repetition reduces mental effort and makes the lie easier to accept.
#Desensitization: The more often a lie is repeated, the less absurd it appears.
Sometimes you get lucky and catch something amusing during training.
#Horses #HorseLife #BarnLife #LessonPony #TrainingMethodsMayVary #Desensitization #DontTryThisAtHomeKids #HorsesPutUpWithSoMuchFromUsHumans
Philip Kennicott: #tRump is already numbing us to the horrific images his plans would create: Outrage never lasts. That’s why Trump wants to show us the worst before he does it.
"In his increasingly rambling public speeches, Donald Trump seems to be talking in some version of Tamarian, a language first heard more than 30 years ago in a 1991 episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Spoken by a potentially hostile alien leader, Tamarian baffles the universal translator because it doesn’t consist of nouns, verbs & adjectives or any of the usual building blocks of language, but rather of allusions to myth, literature and history, densely packed but meaningless unless you know the context.
Trump is referencing a hypothetical image of something that hasn’t yet happened, and encouraging Americans to harden their hearts against its emotional power. He is extending his frequent dehumanization of immigrants — as animals and criminals…"
How the abnormal gets normalised – and what to do about it
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240314-how-the-abnormal-gets-normalised-and-what-to-do-about-it
> As we browse the news, it's easy to become desensitised to awful events. Amanda Ruggeri explores the psychology, and the steps you can take to avoid it happening.
Oral Therapy Effectively Treats Childhood Peanut Allergy: One year of peanut powder may be safely/effectively used in children as young as 12 months. #peanut #allergy #immunotherapy #desensitization #anaphylaxis #peanutpowder
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cy_cuY_RkOG/
I try really hard to avoid #KinkShaming, yucking anybody's yum, or being judgmental about other people's #kinks. But there are definitely some sexual practices and peccadillos about which I am habitually silent, because saying "eww..." is hurtful, and it's about all I got.
I am, however, happy to report that the #desensitization effect of 20 years of sex blogging operates continuously, if slowly; even after two decades, my list of silences continues to get smaller over time.
I realized today that after working in several restaurants years ago and raising a kid who's now 16, there's NOTHING that can gross me out anymore. I've seen and smelled it all. If you want to desensitize yourself to gross stuff, do one or both of these things.
#parenting #kids #restaurants #FoodService #RestaurantJobs #GrossStuff #GrossJobs #desensitized #desensitization
All child drug addicts, and all children drawn into the narcotics traffic as messengers, with whom we have had contact, were inveterate comic-book readers. In the lives of some of these children who are overwhelmed by temptation the pattern is one of stealing, gangs, addiction, comic books and violence. The parallel with crime comic stories is striking.
#addiction #desensitization #comicbooks #psychology
https://wertham.substack.com/p/teen-age-dope-slaves
