Being a cynic linked to tripled risk of developing dementia, Finland study suggests

The Daily Telegraph, National Post Wire Services | ^ | Sarah Knapton

[MrB]

Obviously, someone was targeting MY water glass. Probably someone in the Obama administration.

[JimSEA]

What’s my name again. Why am I posting here?

[cripplecreek]

I’ve found that life is a whole lot less aggravating ones I learned to let things roll off my back.

[Starboard]

If the glass is half empty, who stole the other half?

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The guy I trusted too much.

[Larry Lucido]

I don’t believe a word of whatever we were talking about

[steve86]

should be screened more closely for diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

There is no good way to screen for Alzheimer’s unless you kill them first and then do an autopsy. You can only screen for dementia (various causes).

[Starboard]

Excellent take on this “study”.

I smell a hidden agenda to get more funding for something.

[wildbill]

Pardon me, but I dont believe in this ‘scientific’ study of ...of...of... Well, it was something important I’m sure of that.

[Political Junkie Too]

In other words, concocted justification for throwing political opponents into sanatoriums.

They MUST be crazy to oppose liberal policies. Everybody KNOWS that, right? The longer they've held these beliefs, the crazier they are!

-PJ

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I am a cynic. There are a lot of cynics here at FR. It's hard not to be a cynic in this day and age.

I see the difference between 1910 liberalism and 1930 “liberalism” as the difference between having faith and being a cynic: Theodore Roosevelt famously asserted that

"It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena . . . who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds . . . 

The meaning of “liberalism” was inverted, according to Safire’s New Political Dictionary, in the 1920s. So now, “liberalism” means the attitude expressed by Fauxcohantas or by Barak Obama:

If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

The latter quotation is pure cynicism in comparison to the former one.

[I want the USA back]

Most of these “studies” are worth nothing. They aren’t even valid science.

[Starboard]

In other words, concocted justification for throwing political opponents into sanatoriums.

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Exactly. Skeptics are dangerous to the existing order and prevailing liberal orthodoxy. Such political heretics must be institutionalized.

[tbw2]

The other possibility is that cynics don’t have as many close friends, and the lack of strong social connections is correlated to decreased life expectancy. The personality trait causes the lack of social connections.
Or they suffered the loss of partners and family members early, making them cynical. In that case, the personality trait is caused by the environment. The symptom - cynicism - is then blamed as the cause of shorter life expectancy.

[Intolerant in NJ]

I’m in big trouble....

[Pearls Before Swine]

Ruh, roh. I’m worried now, although I can’t remember about what.

[Gay State Conservative]

I'm already in the middle stages of Irish Alzheimer’s...all you can remember are the grudges.