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The analogies with room temperature superconductors and antigravity suggest that bromantane is some kind of super drug. But the only thing the author bases this

The analogies with room temperature superconductors and antigravity suggest that bromantane is some kind of super drug. But the only thing the author bases this on is the summary of a study in russian that the author can't even read.

monochr 12y ago
Believe it or not there is a respectable number of scientists, physicists no less, who make a living doing nothing but bringing 80 year old Soviet Science to the west. Every so often they get the front pages of nature for essentially finding anti-gravity: http://www.nature.com/news/2008/012345/full/news.2008.1185.html http://www.nature.com/news/2008/012345/full/news.2008.1185.h... Or you find actually build computer architectures and languages which American theoretical computer scientists rediscovered 30 years later as the most efficient possible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
- pinkyand 12y ago
  I have great appreciation for russian technology, but aren't those exaggeration ? If setun , the ternary computer was so efficient - how is ithat today we use binary machines(and that in general the russians didn't have a moore's law ) ?
  - monochr 12y ago
    The industrial spies in the West send back information that binary was used exclusively and the Soviet bureaucracy, like usual, decided that the West knows best and shut down that area of research. One thing people in the West don't understand is that the Soviet Union after Stalin believed it was a second rate power and acted like one. In many ways the Politburo was a US cheerleader, they only challenged the US tactically while strategically accepting most of the propaganda more uncritically than US dissidents.
- StuffMaster 12y ago
  One of the many disadvantages of a closed state...
TeMPOraL 12y ago
> But the only thing the author bases this on is the summary of a study in russian that the author can't even read. Not true. He said that "they seem to have pretty good evidential support", and that russian study was used only as an example. Also while comparison tu room temperature superconductivity might be a hyperbole, apparently drug having "both stimulant and anti-anxiety properties" that "millions of Russians have been using for decades and are by and large still alive" is something really big in the field of medicine.
- fabian2k 12y ago
  The possible evidence is in those other journal articles, but they are in russian as well, which the author admittedly can't read. So I'm wondering how he arrived at his conclusion when all the possibly hard evidence is in a language he doesn't understand?
  - TeMPOraL 12y ago
    The author works in a hospital, does psychiatry for a living and is known around the Internet for reading tons of research papers, so I'm personally willing to give him benefit of doubt here, but in essence you're right, he didn't provide much support references for that medicine, regardless of whether he has or has not read any.

monochr 12y ago

Believe it or not there is a respectable number of scientists, physicists no less, who make a living doing nothing but bringing 80 year old Soviet Science to the west. Every so often they get the front pages of nature for essentially finding anti-gravity: http://www.nature.com/news/2008/012345/full/news.2008.1185.html http://www.nature.com/news/2008/012345/full/news.2008.1185.h... Or you find actually build computer architectures and languages which American theoretical computer scientists rediscovered 30 years later as the most efficient possible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun

pinkyand 12y ago
I have great appreciation for russian technology, but aren't those exaggeration ? If setun , the ternary computer was so efficient - how is ithat today we use binary machines(and that in general the russians didn't have a moore's law ) ?
- monochr 12y ago
  The industrial spies in the West send back information that binary was used exclusively and the Soviet bureaucracy, like usual, decided that the West knows best and shut down that area of research. One thing people in the West don't understand is that the Soviet Union after Stalin believed it was a second rate power and acted like one. In many ways the Politburo was a US cheerleader, they only challenged the US tactically while strategically accepting most of the propaganda more uncritically than US dissidents.
StuffMaster 12y ago
One of the many disadvantages of a closed state...

TeMPOraL 12y ago

> But the only thing the author bases this on is the summary of a study in russian that the author can't even read. Not true. He said that "they seem to have pretty good evidential support", and that russian study was used only as an example. Also while comparison tu room temperature superconductivity might be a hyperbole, apparently drug having "both stimulant and anti-anxiety properties" that "millions of Russians have been using for decades and are by and large still alive" is something really big in the field of medicine.

fabian2k 12y ago
The possible evidence is in those other journal articles, but they are in russian as well, which the author admittedly can't read. So I'm wondering how he arrived at his conclusion when all the possibly hard evidence is in a language he doesn't understand?
- TeMPOraL 12y ago
  The author works in a hospital, does psychiatry for a living and is known around the Internet for reading tons of research papers, so I'm personally willing to give him benefit of doubt here, but in essence you're right, he didn't provide much support references for that medicine, regardless of whether he has or has not read any.