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My 16-month theanine self-experiment

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817 points dynm | 1 comments | 09 Mar 25 03:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source

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discodonkey ◴[09 Mar 25 06:49 UTC] No.43306858[source]▶

>>43305803 (OP) #

For a community that prides itself on critical thinking, I'm always surprised to see HN lap this sort of pseudoscientific witch-doctor stuff up.

This poorly-controlled, N=1 experiment tells you nothing, not even about the author.

There's absolutely no reason to consider these novice self-experiments when professional scientific experiments are available (unless you're hunting for a specific result).

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1. thrdbndndn ◴[09 Mar 25 07:55 UTC] No.43307113[source]▶

Uh, I think the article itself is fine. Not the most rigorous science, but not too bad for an amateur.

But the comments on HN, on the other hand... Every single post about medicine or disease is full of anecdote upon anecdote and pseudoscience. It's really hard to tell the difference between HN and Reddit in this regard.

The most insane part is that people here are so eager to jump on the train and recommend random treatments to others when they've only vaguely described their problem. I never understand this.