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i have general skepticism for medicinal/nootropic herbs/plants, like, without looking into it i doubt ashwagandha powder or resihi mushrooms actually have good evidence that they work. But how do these things get established in the lore as useful in the first place?

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Because they work on some people. Scientific evidence requires that it works on everyone (or the majority)

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I don't think this is true.

10:05 PM · May 14, 2022

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It’s not. But one of the issue is the level of quality—the incentives of our truth engine are not set up to produce studies at the scale/power necessary for modern medical/scientific standards to b met. Tons of interesting small sample size studies out there for all these things

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Lol it is. That's why epidemiological studies will almost always fail and why we don't take small scale solutions to health issues very seriously

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You are correct