H. pylori has no connection with motion sickness. What I mean is that the vested interests used the same method to suppress the scientific discoveries related to both H. pylori and motion sickness.（Further, Dr. Marshall said, “The fact that the big drug companies who were supporting the journal articles ignored H. pylori was far more effective than actually saying that a bacterial cause was not true because if they had said it was false, or not important, they would have created a controversy and maybe media interest.”）
More than a decade ago, Chinese scientists researching motion sickness accused me, claiming that my online posts stating “motion sickness is caused by low-frequency noise” had damaged the reputation of Chinese scientists and constituted defamation against them. However, fearing it would attract media attention, they have not yet filed a lawsuit against me for defamation in court.
Ok, I gave you a couple of tries but, illogical. You are taking a general truth, that all science should be checked and questioned and challenged, and turned that into a specific falsehood, that your specific science is true because not all scientists accept all challenges.
There aren’t vested interests here, there is a consensus, and it was expanded to include sounds as a cause.
How do you suggest that their stories match. I don’t see it.
Plus considering the extensive experience I had as a kid, sitting in the back seat, with two sisters who were prone to motion sickness. Only once, where they stuck fighting for that coffee can at the same time. Yes indeed hilarity ensued. So that further supports my notion that low-frequency noise had nothing to do with their periodic attacks of Motion Sickness.
Not that I don’t imagine it’s possible for an extreme case to trigger upset and vomiting - but that would be unrelated to motion sickness per se - wouldn’t it?
Some different sort of neutral overload.
Welcome back @sgroclkc . It would be great if you started a new topic.
https://www.peeref.com/works/41337285/comments?rating=1
I have now found a website where I can post reviews and comments on scientific papers. Unafraid of any potential retaliation, I have immediately filed a formal report against these pseudoscientific papers under my real name.
My article exposing the pseudoscience surrounding motion sickness has received comments on an academic website for the very first time. Previously, my articles were never published on academic platforms. Although researchers studying motion sickness frequently accused me of defaming scientists online, and my posts garnered up to hundreds of thousands of views, opinions shared on social media are simply not taken seriously by the academic community.
The link is not to an article and it doesn’t expose anything.
This is my comment on the fake papers about simulated motion sickness.
I just received a call from China’s most authoritative department for investigating scientific fraud, stating that they will look into cases of scientific fraud related to motion sickness. I have been exposing scientific fraud concerning motion sickness since 1997. Previously, I also received a response from a Chinese government department tasked with combating scientific fraud, indicating that they would investigate the issue. However, in the end, because this scientific fraud has formed a powerful interest group, the investigators backed off due to overwhelming resistance. I only want to expose the scientific fraud related to motion sickness as quickly as possible, so that humanity can immediately and completely solve the problem of motion sickness. Otherwise, humans will never be able to solve the problem of motion sickness.
Do you have any data or evidence? So far you have shown us comments.
Since the current mainstream views on motion sickness, nightmares, and sleep paralysis cannot be tested or falsified, these mainstream views are pseudoscientific and no one truly believes them. Nowadays, issues related to motion sickness, nightmares, and sleep paralysis on the Internet have become hot topics of public concern, which is the public’s practical action to vote against these mainstream pseudoscientific views. Although the public knows that thousands of papers on motion sickness, nightmares, and sleep paralysis published by scientists from all over the world in the past century are all fake papers that are of no help in solving practical problems, no one has publicly questioned these fake papers because the public does not know the real causes of motion sickness, nightmares, and sleep paralysis. After years of in-depth research, Chinese scientists have finally discovered that motion sickness is caused by infrasound or low-frequency noise, nightmares by palpitations, and sleep paralysis by cerebral hypoxia and ischemia, completely exposing these thousands of misleading fake papers over the past century. Once these research results of Chinese scientists are recognized, these problems can be completely solved immediately, and these hot topics of public concern on the Internet will immediately become topics that no one pays attention to.
My evidence is well-known. The current mainstream views on motion sickness are pseudoscience that cannot be tested or falsified. For example, when I saw someone promoting mainstream views on motion sickness on the Chinese platform Xiaohongshu this year, I immediately pointed out that these mainstream views on motion sickness are all pseudoscience that cannot be tested or falsified, and that the real solution to motion sickness lies in low-frequency noise. My comment received 2,287 likes from netizens within 9 hours. However, my report was rejected a few days ago by Chinese experts investigating scientific fraud. It’s not that these Chinese experts have extremely low IQs and can’t see the scientific fraud that even ordinary people can recognize; rather, these experts are all part of the academic circle. Just like a Chinese internet celebrity student Geng this year, who exposed dozens of fake papers published in the most authoritative scientific journals and Nature in a few days. It’s not that student Geng has an extremely high IQ, but that people in the academic circle cover up for each other after knowing about these fake papers and are unwilling to expose them.
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No, motion sickness is a very real, well-documented neurological condition and definitively not pseudoscience. It is rooted in physiological sensory conflicts, though the exact evolutionary why behind the vomiting response remains a subject of ongoing scientific debate. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Why You Feel It (The Science)
- Sensory Conflict Theory: The mainstream, widely accepted explanation is that motion sickness occurs when your brain receives conflicting information from your sensory systems. [1, 2, 3, 4]
- The Mismatch: Your eyes, inner ears (vestibular system), and body receptors (proprioceptors) don’t agree. For example, if you read in a car, your inner ear feels movement, but your eyes see a stationary book. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
- The Result: The brain perceives this sensory mismatch as a threat—similar to how it interprets the effects of neurotoxins—triggering a defensive response resulting in dizziness, nausea, and vomiting. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
What is Still Up for Debate
- The “Poison” Hypothesis: Evolutionary biologists theorize that motion sickness is an accidental byproduct of ancient defense mechanisms; historically, poison ingestion caused similar sensory and motor distortions, so vomiting was an evolutionary survival advantage to purge the neurotoxin. [1, 2, 3]
- Alternative Theories: Other neurologists, like Thomas Stoffregen, hypothesize that motion sickness is a postural instability problem, where the body hasn’t yet learned to adapt its sway to a new environment.[1]
You can read more about the peer-reviewed evidence and the evolutionary biology behind the condition in this overview on the National Center for Biotechnology Information and in this article from The Scientist.
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The views you mentioned are all misleading to the public, taken out of context from encyclopedias or popular science articles. There are actually two kinds of peer-reviewed views on motion sickness. One is that the mainstream cause of motion sickness is still unclear, because all scientific experiments related to vestibular function have failed to replicate motion sickness. The other is that scientists studying environmental noise have found that scientific experiments on infrasound or low-frequency noise can replicate motion sickness, thus concluding that motion sickness is caused by infrasound or low-frequency noise. However, the research results of scientists studying environmental noise have not yet received peer review from scientists studying motion sickness. For a long time, encyclopedias or popular science articles from all over the world have introduced the vestibular function hypothesis related to motion sickness out of context, without mentioning at all that the peer-reviewed vestibular function is only a hypothesis and that the cause of motion sickness is still unclear. After seeing the feedback I wrote about the motion sickness entry, the editorial department of the Encyclopedia Britannica has completely stopped updating it. The reason why the views on motion sickness I posted on Xiaohongshu a few days ago received thousands of likes from netizens within a few hours is that the views I introduced can be replicated through experiments and can completely solve the problem of motion sickness. However, the current mainstream view on the vestibular function of motion sickness has not yet been replicated by scientific experiments. It is only a pseudoscientific view that simulates motion sickness and is of no help in solving the problem of motion sickness.
In short, if a view cannot be replicated by scientific experiments, it has no scientific value and is even less helpful in solving problems.