Tianeptine, or ‘gas station heroin,’ causes intense withdrawals

Re:Tianeptine, or ‘gas station heroin,’ causes intense withd... by species9606 on Monday December 12, 2022 @11:10PM (#33964728)

Yes, we had a neurosurgeon run for the Presidency who, according to experts, had some foolish tax policies he wanted to implement. You don’t hear me making pronouncements on tax policy, because I don’t know enough about it. Nor should a “harm reduction counselor” try to make authoritative statements about neurological pharmacokinetics and the like.

Seems like you didn’t quite think that analogy through.

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Re:Tianeptine, or ‘gas station heroin,’ causes intense withd... by Brian_K_White on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @01:38PM (#33973644)

But a real life neurosurgeon did do that stupid thing.

Being educated enough to be accredited in some field does not automatically prove either intelligence or wisdom, let alone character or integrity, even IN that field, and so is merely a data point to consider and not the end of all conversation when they voice an opinion, even in their claimed wheelhouse.

One can be very smart and very informed on a topic, and also be an asshole whose opinions on that topic and most others should be disregarded because their motivations are shit.

But one way you can judge some of those things is by the difference between the two types of statements in my first comment.

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