I accidentally discovered cross-species microbiome colonization in my dog

[TomJansen]

So the author tried to fix a non-issue of somebody else's dog with human-grade probiotics.

I think that actually there was no issue at all and he just wanted to YOLO it.

And then he only goes to discuss if it was ethical as he didn't ask the dog? What about just not medicating a dog when there is no medical problem? What about consent from the owner? So much more issues with this than what the author discusses.

[kinderpingui]

I realize your deep concerns & I want to indicate that I bear full responsibility for it.

[knollimar]

I don't want to accuse this of being AI generated, but what's with some of the graph choices?

The behavioral changes one seems very unreadable.

[gnabgib]

The last post was similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899331

[kinderpingui]

That graph is not very readable, you are right. Since I don't have a unit to measure the dog's behavior changes, this is reflected in the graph

[Cpoll]

Looking at the author's other posts: Very prolific, long articles, and weird outliers like https://lightcapai.medium.com/should-i-go-milan-211ef725bb71, https://lightcapai.medium.com/if-you-are-suicidal-read-this-..., and https://lightcapai.medium.com/alpay-algebra-solving-the-unso... (a weird take on the halting problem).

[ticulatedspline]

Yeah, they're mostly fluff. Based on the title I'm a bit disappointed there wasn't more actual science here, like measuring bacterial content changes in the stool.

While I don't doubt the perceived changes and there is plenty of human research indicating that gut bacteria dictates more about us than we'd like to admit the graphs in this article definitely portray the results as having more rigor than they actually did.