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Re:Eating Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy by Retra on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:25AM (#20030359)
That's because word-of-mouth is very capable of transmitting abject nonsense and fantasy. If you're going to be taking some medicine, you should be sure it isn't, and the way to do that is with thorough study & evaluation.
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Re:Eating Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy by sametmax on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:36AM (#20030498)
Not the point. The point is that we are the opposite of the facebook mum. She believes anything that is posted without evidence, while we don't dare to even try something without 4 white papers.

It's especially funny given that meditation, psychedelic and open source software were all ridiculed concepts 30 years ago, and now we are promoting them in this very comment section.

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Re:Eating Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy by Retra on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @11:54AM (#20031356)
I am not promoting them, nor would I. Obviously, this is a mixed community, and you cannot paint it with such a broad brush.
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