Re:Is There a Case for Skepticism of Psychedelic Therapy?
by BlueGh0st on Saturday September 07, 2019 @02:36PM
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I'm not sure if it's constructive to dispel super vague opinions with logical fallacies. In fact, I'm not sure what the point of the comment was at all, in retrospect.
Re:Is There a Case for Skepticism of Psychedelic Therapy?
by mistermann on Saturday September 07, 2019 @02:33PM
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This is somewhat suggestive, but due to a massive amount of other variables involved, for it to be more conclusive you'd want to compare to another extremely similar country with minimal usage (or, spawn an alternate universe).
Re:Is There a Case for Skepticism of Psychedelic Therapy?
by newnewpdro on Saturday September 07, 2019 @02:59PM
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The world can be a much better place while still being nowhere near a utopia. There's a lot of ground to cover between the status quo and such an ideal.
Re:Is There a Case for Skepticism of Psychedelic Therapy?
by wutbrodo on Saturday September 07, 2019 @03:21PM
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Sure, and claims that socialized healthcare systems don't wreck the economy are definitively falsified by the existence of Cuba.
Or....the counterfactual isn't "arbitrary country without socialized healthcare (or history of psychedelic use)" , it's a hypothetical Cuba minus socialized healthcare (or a hypothetical Peru minus psychedelic use).
Your conclusion is not remotely how basic logic works.
There are places, like Peru, where psychedelics were in widespread usage for a thousand years. Yet Peru is not associated with an utopia, the best place to be on Earth, or anything of that sort.