• Worstdriver@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    AS a bystander in all this, could all of you… CITE YOUR DAMN SOURCES! If you have proof of your assertions via studies or research papers, LINK THEM!

    Why?

    Because this topic is of interest to me and I want to be informed with actual scientific data. Not by a person, but by peer-reviewed studies.

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      10 months ago

      You should just look it up yourself.

      Im not going to do anything different than you would. Open google scholar, put in various searches about outdoor cats, and read the newer articles.

      Im not going to badger any of my real world friends about sources for a dumbass internet argument, and my memorized sources are all about my actual work, which is specialized in botanical study specifically.

      Or reach out to your local university. Im sure there are a few local researchers who are plenty passionate about this and are invested in giving you specific local examples.

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          10 months ago

          If being told that a random knock off reddit forum is not a high enough priority for me to go google things for you that you are fully capable of googling yourself, translates in your head into “theres no data at all” then you didnt want facts in the first place.

          No one memorizes all studies ever written anywhere about anything. I specialize in botanical science. Cats? Not plants. So I dont have those studies titles and authors memorized.

          To go find them, I would do what every other researher or grad student would do. Use google scholar. Which is very easy to use, and you can do it just fine yourself.

          If you actually cared about the data, you can easily and quickly find it. But, you dont, so you wont.