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dsr_ on May 20, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lavender's Game: Silexan for Anxiety

Once it is proven to work, it's called medicine. Prior to that, it's unproven stuff that people are selling to you.

The entire article is about evaluating the trustworthiness of the studies of this particular shit.

Gordonjcp on May 21, 2022 [–]

> Once it is proven to work, it's called medicine.

Once it's proven to be *marketable*, it's called medicine.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

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