Oh cool, Scott did a blog about how the fuck LSD restored my sense of smell
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i like how literally nowhere in this blog post is the suggestion that someone should do empiricism to this question (although i skimmed it and maybe missed it)
Think we can get a large enough sample of volunteers with chronic pain / anosmia?
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I’ve offered to do so, having had an extended case.
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If I had to guess, "more well-designed studies around this phenomenon would be good" isn't something that he'd disagree with. Nor does it really bear repeating. Theoretical speculation is second to empirical results but still useful (or at least interesting)
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If empirical results exist but are limited to "this phenomenon exists" then the same blog post will be written. Better would obviously be empirical results which shed light on mechanisms