The tragic history of the only diet pill that worked

Re:The tragic history of the only diet pill that worked by Malp on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @05:32PM (#26322000)

I don't think I've laughed this much at an article in a long time;

|> There’s something quintessentially Russian about this, like a cross between the Platonic essences of AK-47s and Krokodil.

|> In fact, I just checked out a couple of bodybuilding forums and this is definitely true - one of them may have used the phrase “YOLO”.

|> And Vice (why is it always Vice?) is somehow even more melodramatic

Does anyone have any other works of writing with a similar style or subject matter? This truly made my day :)

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Re:The tragic history of the only diet pill that worked by renewiltord on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @05:39PM (#26322103)

This guy has written so much on Slate Star Codex that you could spend the next month reading it.

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Re:The tragic history of the only diet pill that worked by thedailymail on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @01:31AM (#26325420)

Derek Lowe's blog on medicinal chemistry/biopharma has a whole section on "Things I won't work with" (from a chemist's perspective):

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thin...

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Re:The tragic history of the only diet pill that worked by qrohlf on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @11:34PM (#26324796)

Matt Levine’s Bloomberg column applies a similar savvy dry humor to finance topics, I don’t actually care much for finance but I read it because it’s great writing and illustrates how to make dense and uninteresting topics approachable and engaging.

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