• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    In all that crazy, there’s, shockingly, two good points:

    1. Psychedelics. There’s at least anecdotal evidence they’re good for treating certain traumas / PTSD. So, yeah, we should be looking into their medicinal applications. But is it the FDA or the DEA that’s cockblocking those?

    2. Stem cells. Abso-fucking-lutely yes. But wasn’t it the “pro life” people holding that up?

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      Stem cells.

      He’s not talking about the stem cells that can cure a select few diseases.

      He’s talking about an alternative medicine thing which is basically sticking cells from your right arm into your left arm and calling it “stem cell therapy” then claiming it can cure hundreds of diseases.

      There is zero evidence (or RCTs) showing his version of “stem cells” works.

      The FDA bases approval on two highly successful phase 3 RCTs of a specific drug for a specific condition. You can read more about that process here

      Neither psychedelics not RFK’s version of stem cell therapy has that yet.

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        Thanks for clarifying. I took the mention of stem cells in the wall of crazy tweet to be the more credible form of stem cell therapy. Considering I was fully aware of who was making the statement, the fault is mine.

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        I suspect my insurance company will soon cover shoving goat testicles into my scrotum. I’ll be so virile!

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      I mean psychedelics really shouldn’t be suppressed as much as they want, but with him gutting all actual medical science, they’re not gonna be helping much.

      They have tons of potential and power, but binging mushrooms for three days and dancing in circles isn’t probably the only way we can utilise them. (I’m not saying it’s a bad one, just not necessarily suited for everyone.)

      And actually if psychedelics gets lumped into his shit it might just be a step back for research on psychedelics when eventually this craziness of his blows up in his face. Hopefully before he implements any of it. Or even gets into office.

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      He also talked about obstructive health patents. I’ll take “Things that he won’t follow through on” for 500.

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      For point one, there was a big study about it but it turned out the study co-ordinators were intimidating people into saying that it helped them when it didn’t. This is why psychedelics are still banned because the “scientists” that were trying to prove that they were safe fucked up in the dumbest possible way.

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      There are also very good reasons to think that the money in medicine distorts and corrupts the science. Fact is the proper trials are very expensive and the only institutions that can afford them are pharmaceutical corporations. So the only treatments that get trailed are the ones that make good business sense.

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        So RFK Jr’s Dept. of HHS is going to increase government grants for pharmaceutical research, right?

        …right?

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          No idea. Can’t get a handle on the guy at all. He’s all over the place.

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      Psychedelics have been studied using grants for years now, and al it of research has already been done and psychologists are using them in micro doses. RFK is a fucking clown, hopefully he visits the level 4 infectious diseases and licks the vials.

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