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bbor
@robb.doering.ai

Fascinating+infuriating example of what a lack of #PhilSci can do to someone, centered on: > The notion that drug addiction is a brain disease... encapsulates all that’s wrong with today’s science in this area. There is absolutely no data in humans to show that drug addiction is a brain disease.

Nautilus Magazine@nautil.us

Carl Hart is a neuroscientist and at Columbia University who studies behavioral and neuropharmacological effects of drugs in humans. "I am now entering my fifth year as a regular heroin user,” he writes. “I do not have a drug-use problem. Never have." 🧪

nautil.usI Am a Heroin User. I Do Not Have a Drug ProblemCarl Hart says drug addiction is often distorted by scientists and the media.
bbor
@robb.doering.ai

I guess it shouldn't exactly be /shocking/ that an empirical scientist was never taught what a disease is (hint: it's not something you can "show" w/ data!), but it's certainly shocking that professional editors let him muse about it nonetheless. A rare example of an article that will kill people.

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