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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 Are Pets Good for Health? The Evidence Is Pretty Fuzzy Scientific American Pets 29 June, 2024 | 1239 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆ It turns out there’s little good evidence that pets benefit our physical or mental health For more than a decade, in blog posts and scientific papers and public talks, the psychologist Hal Herzog has questioned whether owning pets makes people happier and healthier. It is a lonely quest, convincing people that puppies and kittens may not actually be terrific for their physical and mental health. “When I talk to people about this,” Herzog recently said, “nobody believes me.” A prominent professor at a major public university once described him as “a super curmudgeon” who is, in effect, “trying to prove that apple pie causes cancer.” As a teenager in New Jersey in the 1960s, Herzog kept dogs and cats, as well as an iguana, a duck, and a boa constrictor named Boa. Now a professor emeritu
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