The *ethical* position I take (which I know most people don’t agree with) is that you have a right & responsibility to decide for yourself what is crap. And if you want to take risks with your own health, that’s your business.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
Thanks for giving
@Dereklowe a deserved signal boost. My thoughts have gone in a similar direction as yours, but with a bit of collectivism on responsibility for making information available for deciding what is crap.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @mrgunn @s_r_constantin
Conditional on many people being unable or unwilling to decide for themselves (maybe they'd rather spend their time thinking about other stuff!), my ethical position is that it's not right to leave a guidance vacuum, because there's any number of hucksters that will fill it.
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Replying to @mrgunn
I think guidance is really helpful! It’s a public service to provide it. It just shouldn’t be a monopoly. Any more than the US should establish a religion just because spiritual guidance is valuable.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
I'm confused. There are some places where standards of practice are more authoritarian than I would like, but there aren't guidance monopolies. What are you thinking of here?
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Replying to @mrgunn
Which drugs can be legally marketed or imported, which manufacturers can make drugs, etc, is decided by a monopoly.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
On a national level, sure, but not on an individual level. One can import all sorts of non-FDA approved drugs for one's personal use.
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Replying to @mrgunn
Sure, but without marketing, nobody can be incentivized to develop drugs with any kind of testing unless they’re aiming for FDA/EMA approval. The law forces a bifurcation of companies into “pure snake oil” or “pure caution”.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
All organizations - CDC, NIH, FDA, WHO - communicate very conservatively. The assumption is that those smart enough will go around, and the billion dollar market in nootropics is evidence they will. Plenty of marketing and incentives there.
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Replying to @mrgunn
Are there any good nootropics? No. There are not. You can’t make it in the supplement business if you do actual research. It’s a lemons market.
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There are three nootropics I actually believe in: caffeine, nicotine, and amphetamine. Everything else comes out meh or hasn’t been studied.
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