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Rat park comes to mind. The issues are not the drugs, but our well being in society.
by nerbert 6y ago
Rat park comes to mind. The issues are not the drugs, but our well being in society.
- brazzy 6y agoThe drugs have a huge negative effect on well being, and that is not just because they're criminalized (though that is part of it).
- nerbert 6y agoDrugs had great positive impact on millions of people as well. You can’t just cherry pick the worst cases without including the others.
- the-dude 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park#Replication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park#Replication
- pksebben 6y agoI want rat park to be true. It's depressing that it's not been effectively replicated. That said, it's conclusions are sort of common sense; if you give people options and one of them feels better than the rest they will take it, so give them more good options. It's almost as if rats aren't subject to market forces...
- the-dude 6y agoAnd this is what is exactly wrong science. We have had a scientist in NL who claimed that people who eat red meat are more aggressive. Because she wanted it to be true. And maybe the original researcher of Rat Park just wanted it to be true too.