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Title: Love from the science point of view.
Post by: Omnia on January 13, 2009, 10:39:36 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/science/13tier.html?_r=1

Title: Re: Love from the science point of view.
Post by: Piston on January 14, 2009, 09:26:23 AM

   Very interesting Vetiver.  If this came out would you take the anti-love or the love potion?

Title: Re: Love from the science point of view.
Post by: Asmo on January 14, 2009, 12:45:36 PM

I don't know who wants to shag Vet more, Pistion or Vindra. Yeah it's definately Vindra.

Title: Re: Love from the science point of view.
Post by: Stent on January 14, 2009, 12:46:16 PM

marvin and vet would have some crazy hatesex

Title: Re: Love from the science point of view.
Post by: Svirfneblin on January 14, 2009, 12:54:24 PM

The article the NYT references in Nature is only an opinion essay. It in turn references two papers in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and Nature Neuroscience. The PNAS paper is a purely statistical analysis of pair bonding and its association with variations in the Vasopressin gene. This type of study is correlative at best, deceptive at worst. The Nature Neuroscience paper studied bank Voles (a rodent that actually forms pair-bonds similar to humans). Last time I checked, mice were not little people. While it's very interesting, the vasopressin receptors are involved in a lot of things. You might as well be smoking pot or taking coke to be feeling good about your relationship.

Title: Re: Love from the science point of view.
Post by: Vindra on January 14, 2009, 02:34:53 PM

I believe I have made my position with regards to vetiver perfectly clear.

Title: Re: Love from the science point of view.
Post by: Omnia on January 14, 2009, 03:03:15 PM

Quote from: Svirfneblin on January 14, 2009, 12:54:24 PM

You might as well be smoking pot or taking coke to be feeling good about your relationship.

Wait, you mean I've been doing it wrong this whole time? Dammit.