Homosexuality a Pathogen ?

[Brownshoe]

(05-20-2016, 04:19 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Over the past 14 years, I've diagnosed one man with toxoplasmosis. He came in complaining about cold and flu like symptoms and he had some weird adenopathy which made me concerned it could be cancer.

I'm familiar with what toxoplasmosis is and what causes it; a unicellular Protozoa. As a unicellular organism it doesn't "want" anything because it doesn't have any sort of higher nervous system which could generate anything even remotely considered a thought. Let's not assign a higher order of intelligence to a single celled organism by just describing its life cycle.

But, all of that aside, how do they know the infected rats are sexually attracted to cat urine?  Sexual attraction implies sexual desire. Now, what do you find sexually desirable and how would someone else know what you find sexually desirable?

Basically, by claiming the infected rats are sexually attracted to the cat urine the author is claiming the infected rats want to have sex with the cats. You just corroborated that claim. So I want to know . . . How they know . . . The infected rats want to **** the cats . . . Because it don't believe that claim without evidence.

You're just being nit picky with the word "want". Obviously toxoplasmosis isn't intelligent, but it's nature is to screw with the rats brain and make it attracted to cat urine; since cats are the only place where toxoplasmosis can reproduce.

Well I'm not certain that the rats are sexually attracted to cat urine, but it DOES activate the part of the rats brain that normally triggers a mating response when they meet a female rat when it smells it. Or at least that's what Stanford University says.