You know things are bad when scientists are suggesting that we latently medicate everyone with antidepressants via our drinking waterhttps://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/24/18010592/future-perfect-podcast-lithium-drinking-water-suicide …
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Replying to @nic__carter
"Maybe a state could randomly add lithium to some of its reservoirs but not others, or, conversely, a high-lithium state could try removing it from the water." Wow this seems like a great idea.
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Replying to @jzlegion @nic__carter
They already do that, accidentally. Different processes remove different amounts, the groundwater concentration is already changing every day and from location to location and year to year. The only difference is that you are totally ignorant of any harms you already suffer.
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Replying to @gwern @nic__carter
Interesting, I didn't think of that. Do you know how much change in lithium or other chemicals these processes cause?
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Replying to @jzlegion @nic__carter
The differences just from natural groundwater variation are enormous on their own. You can easily get anywhere from ~0 to 0.54mg/l, to take Fajardo et al 2018's Texas range (analogous to going from distilled water to fancy mineral waters).
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Replying to @gwern @nic__carter
Could this lithium experiment be run just by looking at historical lithium changes and historical suicide rates?
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That would just be another correlational analysis, it still wouldn't show the trace lithium *caused* the benefits. (Although it would be nice if someone could show longitudinal correlations; few/no examples so far b/c no one cared enough to record lithium levels historically.)
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