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Re:Caffeine and Cannabis Effects on Vital Neurotransmitters ... by golergka on Friday March 09, 2018 @07:23AM (#16551228)
Software engineers (myself included) love thinking that they so smart that they follow other fields up to the latest research.

(It doesn't mean that we're necessarily wrong though).

Re:Caffeine and Cannabis Effects on Vital Neurotransmitters ... by trentmb on Friday March 09, 2018 @07:48AM (#16551339)
Its not limited to software engineers. Theres no shortage of blowhards that conflate knowing and understanding.
Re:Caffeine and Cannabis Effects on Vital Neurotransmitters ... by sinemetu11 on Friday March 09, 2018 @09:12AM (#16551832)
Yep - illusion of explanatory depth: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3062901/
Re:Caffeine and Cannabis Effects on Vital Neurotransmitters ... by dekhn on Friday March 09, 2018 @10:18AM (#16552275)
My background is in biology (PhD, Biophysics) but I do software engineering. Few SWEs who follow biology have any clue or understanding, and easily get fooled by bio papers.