Comment · Tue, April 21, 2015 · Ceretropic
Best you've ever felt from nootropics - what did you take?
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adderallworks · 0 points
Measuring something, without a baseline and controls, is not going to tell us anything useful. Did that person use other substances during their life? Did they have other genetic variations that would confound the results? It's just a very hard thing to study in humans.
I see you haven't been involved in much scientific research. No offense intended because you do know your stuff.
Money. A study to unequivocally prove neurotoxicity in humans, is going to cost an absolute ungodly amount of money. Just that primate study probably cost a ton. Someone needs to fund it. There is a lot of money in ADHD meds. There is not a lot of money in showing risks/damage.
Not all scientific research is profit geared/ engineered for profit.
The studies showing damage from abuse are certainly scientific. It's just the pharma companies have an excuse for why that does not apply to prescription dosing. A study showing damage at therapeutic dosages, would cause a lot of issues for them. There's more money in showing things are safe, rather than showing things are damaging; that is, unless you are talking about schedule 1 substances. Then there seems to be more than enough government money to try and show damage. Schedule 2? Not so much.
This sounds like a conspiracy theory, don't you think?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic
You are correct, I have not been involved running scientific research. However, I really do not see how a human study like that could be run. How would you design the methods, and go about organizing it?
Not all scientific research is profit geared/ engineered for profit.
No, but it always has a cost.
This sounds like a conspiracy theory, don't you think?
Just an observation about what studies get funded, and what studies don't. I made no claims about why that might be. I have my suspicions, but will leave that for another time.