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The title is rather misleading. The outcome of the research, as per the writeup, is correlation in a particular set of circumstances, at best.

Although I find science fascinating and would want this to be true, stuff like this is what leads people to disbelieve in legitimate science.

If someone can say that breaks improve memory, for sure, 100%, definitely (but actually only, you know, maybe), then someone else could say that vaccines cause cancer, and that would be totally believable. Game over.



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