"I learned it from an extraordinary mixture of people I met on my travels." Is this more credible than modern science?
"It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned" is incorrect. There have been laws in the U.S. against some drugs since the 1860's, and various laws in Europe and the Middle East for a few hundred years.
Even the headline, "The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered..." is faulty in that it implies there is only one cause for any addiction.
Even without the causation argument, this article is largely empty of credible science. It's disappointing to see this type of pseudo-science on HN.
I very much like to see this type of pseudo-science on HN. I read the article a few weeks ago and was pretty iffy about it, but I didn't really have a venue to converse about it. The comments that are already here, yours included, have got some cogs turning in my brain and I see some good thought and discussion to be had about the article.
"I learned it from an extraordinary mixture of people I met on my travels." Is this more credible than modern science?
"It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned" is incorrect. There have been laws in the U.S. against some drugs since the 1860's, and various laws in Europe and the Middle East for a few hundred years.
Even the headline, "The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered..." is faulty in that it implies there is only one cause for any addiction.
Even without the causation argument, this article is largely empty of credible science. It's disappointing to see this type of pseudo-science on HN.