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Selling drugs and supplements that're a bad idea to use is fine. As long as the package is truthful about the product's composition, dosage and purity, I say pe
by jimrandomh 10y ago
Selling drugs and supplements that're a bad idea to use is fine. As long as the package is truthful about the product's composition, dosage and purity, I say people can (and should) do their own research.
But this is a drug mislabeled as a food. It literally says "food" on the package ("Sunfood Superfoods"). That creates a very large risk that people will treat it like a food, and try it without reading the wikipedia page first. That's really not okay.
- splawn 10y ago"Do your own research" The classic dunning-kruger trailhead.
- mfringel 10y agoI know from dunning-kruger, but can you explain what you mean by that?
- splawn 10y agoNot just anyone off the street is qualified to be a pharmacist or a doctor. So in this context "Doing your own research" means allowing dunning-kruger biases into your medical decisions.
- cpdean 10y agoA fool doing research may conclude this to be a healthfood, given the sources they take in. For example, the packaging of the product. "That's silly, who could ever trust the packaging?" -- well, someone who also suffers from that dunning-kruger effect right?
- munificent 10y agoI'd guess they mean that the kind of people who think they are competent to do their own research are exactly those who are not.
- unimpressive 10y agoExactly. "Don't eat more than eight in a day" is less like something you'd say about a food and more like the advice my doctor gave me about what constitutes an Adderall overdose.
- 1_listerine_pls 10y agoNeither a drug or supplement. B17 is a made up vitamin name.
- spacehome 10y agoThey're all made up.
- khedoros 10y agoAll words are made up. "Vitamin" is generally accepted to mean "an organic compound that an organism requires in small amounts, and which it can't replicate itself". The accepted mapping of vitamin names to actual chemical substances changes over time, and sometimes substances are removed from the accepted list of vitamins. Researchers will choose a name. As more evidence is gathered supporting that substance as an essential nutrient, it becomes a more widely-accepted name. Amygdalin was apparently investigated as Vitamin B17. Insufficient evidence was found for it as a "vitamin". Its most obvious effect is that it's metabolized into cyanide. It's not widely accepted as a vitamin (by nutrition researchers), but it's still marketed as one because it's easier to sell as a food than if it were marketed as a poison. Who coins a word, why they coined it, who rejects that definition, and why they reject it are important points.
- spacehome 10y agoYea, you're right.