Re:Lavender's Game: Silexan for Anxiety
by amusedcyclist on Friday May 20, 2022 @02:33PM
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I would not trust Scott Alexander on real science. He's a pseudo scientific hack with an agenda
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Must really be a pretty bad right winger given that he talks so much about being liberal and donates to Democrats[0].
0. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-217?s=r
Re:Lavender's Game: Silexan for Anxiety
by amusedcyclist on Friday May 20, 2022 @03:01PM
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Okay maybe hes not a right winger , just pseudo scientific
Or more likely given that your first claim was clearly incorrect you are just trying to paint him in a bad light and your specific accusations have little real basis.
Re:Lavender's Game: Silexan for Anxiety
by thebooktocome on Friday May 20, 2022 @04:33PM
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That article says he donated to what he considered an “Effective Altruist”, so the party affiliation was probably secondary.
Politically, he’s a centrist with some libertarian/communitarian mix-ins. More conservative now than he was in the Archipelago days. [0]
Dude used to love Musk and the other technocrats before that became cringe in actual leftist circles.
[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/07/archipelago-and-atomic...