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Tobacco absorbs and concentrates radioactive metals in soil and fertilizers. Cannabis does not do this. https://www.cdc.gov/radiation-health/data-research/facts-sta... The tobacco …

Check out the review articles in the “Nature Reviews” journals, like “Nature Reviews Genetics”. These articles are written by experts but designed for a non-specialist audience (wi…

On Facebook, if you go to 'Menu' > 'Feeds' > 'Friends' you will see a feed of only your contacts' activity and none of the suggested posts & random pages on the normal Feed

Collaborate with other people on your projects. You could do some of the initial work, and then hand it off to others to do the marketing and follow-up. You don’t have to do everyt…

Exposure therapy for PTSD, phobias, and other anxiety disorders has lots of evidence from clinical trials. It is based on animal studies of “fear extinction”. You often see good re…

But for papers published recently you can email an author and they will send you a PDF.

ChatGPT often makes up facts. It outputs stuff that looks like it could have been written by a human, not stuff that is correct. Don’t use ChatGPT for medical research.

Many male authors have relied on their wives as unpaid secretaries, typists, editors, researchers, and writers. #ThanksForTyping https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/ishmaeldaro/th…

You must be doing this all the time because even if you verbalize some stuff you cannot possibly verbalize everything that is happening in your mind.

In 2012 Yasha Levine accused Malcolm Gladwell of taking “$1M per year” in “speaking fees” from “Pharma, Big Tobacco, Wall Street, Health Insurance Industry”: http://shameproject.co…

Check out “childhood emotional neglect” and “complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD)”. There are lots of books, websites, and forums about this. Your chronic feeling of empti…

US teacher unions are for teachers in elementary and high schools (teaching children). People teaching at universities typically do not have a union.

Lots of people have a high standard of living but still suffer from childhood abuse and neglect.

Reducing stigma helps research. It becomes easier to get institutional support, recruit study participants, collaborate with colleagues, obtain funding, etc.

There are reports in medical journals of people accidentally taking hundreds of doses of LSD, and they all were sober within 24 hours.

Wasson did not "discover" magic mushrooms, he was just the first white person to write about taking them. There were earlier reports on mushroom ceremonies, that is why Wasson went…

The study that Kaczynski participated in did not involve LSD and in interviews Kaczynski has denied ever using LSD.

This is DXM, a dissociative like ketamin, found in cough medications like Robotussin. You can get quite high on it.

Frequency of cannabis increased 20% after legalization in US states. Not much effect. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2022/08/25/cannabi...

Participants were required to bring their own psilocybin mushrooms. Probably because it can be expensive and difficult for researchers to get obtain and administer pharma-grade psi…

Congress members are probably over-performing because of insider trading.

How was your childhood? Sometimes people push themselves to achieve to avoid internal shame. Check out "childhood emotional neglect" and "complex PTSD". Dealing with these core iss…

An El Salvador court just sentenced a woman to 30 years in prison for having a miscarriage. She has been jailed for two years awaiting trial and has a 7 year old daughter. https://…

There is when the employees join together in a union.

Like here we are expressing ourselves.