Should DayQuil Be Legal?

Post by cykros » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 3:46 PM UTC

jmalicki wrote: post #46

Aurornis wrote: post #35

This article uses the trick where you pick studies that support your argument and ignore all of the studies that disagree with it. There are other studies where Dextromethorphan improves both objective and subjective measures of coughing: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37232330/ They also picked a study that shows honey outperforming Dextromethorphan but ignored all the studies that show honey performing similarly o…

An interesting new drug is Auvelity, where Dextromethorphan is proposed to help stimulate neurotropic growth factor to help the brain repair itself, and similar related drugs like dextromethorphan and ketamine and other NMDA receptor antagonists are innovative drugs to help prevent Alzheimer's.

Wow -- that's a combination I only remember people being highly cautioned against at least for recreational use.

Post by triceratops » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 7:32 PM UTC

mannanj wrote: post #311

triceratops wrote: post #309

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Do you need more examples? Hopefully I don't come off as hostile but there were no examples in your post. What were your questions? Did you also show an open mind and willingness to engage?

I thought these were examples > Simply asking specific questions about health, about diseases, about diet, about social media addiction, about controversial topics like politics, etc release hostility from a handful of people. These people engage with ill will and not friendliness. And it is assumed by them that the asker (me usually) meant unwell Specific instantiation: during COVID after vaccines had rolled out, I…

> I have used it successfully myself

To de-worm yourself? Awesome, always good to be worm free.

> I got a lot of hostile and ridicule and mockery

I don't condone hostility. But if you were a friend of mine and you claimed you cured Covid using ivermectin I would definitely mock you. Sorry bro.

> what was an agenda of prejudice [against ivermectin for Covid]

Why do you think it was prejudice and not, y'know, post-judice? https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-than-y...

What's a simpler explanation?

"Ivermectin is really effective against Covid but the drug companies just want to make money so they're suppressing the truth"

"Ivermectin is really effective against worms. Being worm-free is helpful in fighting Covid. If you don't already have worms it won't help you with Covid"

Did you have an open mind to both these explanations? Do they both seem plausible to you?

If you reject explanation 2 outright, maybe you're the one who's close-minded and hostile to new ideas?

If you agree both are plausible explanations, what was your framework to decide which one was true?

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