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Clarification: Regarding concerns about her uploaded documents.

I just want to be clear: I have no problem believing what KK says about the improvements she's seen in the people she's worked with. After all, depending on the study, up to 75% of children with autism who are minimally verbal end up with functional language (Guerrera et al., 2025). So it is not surprising at all that the individual involved was able to further develop language skills. I would think that an individual in the home of a person with a background in primary education and special education would likely be well suited to provide an enriched environment and would have a better-than-average chance of seeing significant improvement.

What is in question (in my mind at least) is not the improvements that KK has noted; it's the causation behind those improvements. It's not that I doubt the improvements; I doubt her explanation.

References
Guerrera, S., Fucà, E., Petrolo, E., De Stefano, A., Casula, L., Logrieco, M. G., Valeri, G., & Vicari, S. (2025). Exploring the clinical features of minimally verbal autistic children. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 16, 1549092. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1549092

u/Dapper_Valuable_7734 — 7 days ago

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Movie of the week

The only movie will be along the lines of Elizabeth Holmes.

u/EmptyLibrarian6387 — 9 days ago

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A Scientist Is Not a Country

Something I’ve noticed that really bothers me is the way researchers are referred to depending on where they’re from. When it’s an American researcher, she’ll call them out by name, mention their university, their position, their lab, etc. You know exactly who the person is and where they work. But when it’s a researcher from another country, suddenly they’re “Brazil,” “Japan,” etc. Their name and institution disappear and they become their country.

The university part is especially strange to me. American universities are often specifically named, but foreign researchers don’t seem to get that same treatment. So you end up with an American professor being identified as an individual researcher from a specific institution, while a Brazilian professor is just “Brazil.” That’s a pretty significant difference in how you’re presenting the people involved.

I don’t know if that’s intentional, but I think it’s worth noticing. A researcher from Brazil isn’t representing “Brazil,” just like a researcher from the US isn’t representing “the United States.” They’re individual scientists who happen to work at a particular university in a particular country.

It might seem like a small thing, but I think it says something about how foreign researchers are being viewed. They’re not “Brazil” or “Japan.” They’re individual scientists with names, careers, universities, and expertise. Why not refer to them that way?

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u/micro_ppette — 9 days ago

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Hoofbeats likely do not mean zebras in Tennessee

She asks what is different in Pike's DNA that led to the crimes and led to her metabolizing the drugs differently...

Such a great example of hearing hoofbeats and thinking zebra instead of horses...

(Yes, you should consider zebras; no, this post is not about differential diagnosis)

Here is my list of unfounded conclusions that are much more likely than a variation in metabolism.

>!My guess would be that they missed the vein and botched the injection... !<
>!That the injection infiltrated (the fact she asked My arm feels like it’s about to bust. One spot is really throbbing." strongly suggests this. https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/tennessee-botches-another-execution-despite-earlier-warnings-from-attorneys-christa-pike-was-alive-hours-after-attempt-began!<
>!The drugs were counterfeit... something people do not talk about enough is that all the major pharmaceutical companies ban the use of their drugs in executions, meaning that states buy through third parties: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-new-details-execution-drug-underscore-closely-guarded-secret-rcna236168!<
>!Other states have had problems: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/double-execution-tonight-ok-using-secret-experimental-drug-protocol/!<

Jumping straight to metabolic variant and DNA is just wild, and thats not even discussing the lack of evidence that her crime was related to variation in DNA. Even if we had evidence of metabolic variation, why jump straight to DNA?

In relation to her theories on ASD, this is a good example of why we need lots of research at every step; otherwise, you can jump to unfounded conclusions.

If you're curious, pentobarbitol is primarily metabolized by cytochrome P450; notably, BH4 plays no real role... https://synapse.patsnap.com/article/what-is-the-mechanism-of-pentobarbital-sodium

u/Dapper_Valuable_7734 — 14 days ago

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There's an entire sub of AI psychosis sufferers who are convinced this is real because AI says "yes" to everything even if the answer is "no"

u/mqee — 13 days ago