Do you have some citation on this? Why bring it up unless you do?
I say this as a huge proponent of psychedelic research and use, but with the qualification that very few things are universally safe for all, so we really should be as open as possible to studying not only the benefits, but also concerns, that come with psychedelic usage.
> A more serious issue concerns other receptors that LSD activates. In particular, LSD is a potent activator of the serotonin 5-HT2B receptor. Activation of that receptor stimulates growth of cardiac ventricular and valve tissue.
You might want to be less aggressive when asking for citations in the future. Especially considering this is something you could have found in ~5 mins of googling.
Another minute of googling after your citation might lead to this
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4086739/
> You might want to be less aggressive when asking for citations in the future
Or perhaps we're providing encouragement by supplying two citations. ;-)
But it might not have been an aggressive intent. It might have been a consequence of anxiety, which I understand can be a consequence of micro-dosing LSD.
Why is it my responsibility to validate someone's vague claim?
Your first sentence — while the subject isn’t hard to research for yourself — was fine as it added to the potential of the conversation by encouraging people to cite sources; your second was unnecessarily combative and I’d argue intended to induce some shame response in the OC, and didn’t bring any benefit to the community at large.
I'd note that I wasn't the only person to note the aggression in your tone; I'm not intending to shame you for your choice of language, but instead to point out that there are at least two people here who cared enough to respond to you and let you know that it seemed overly aggressive, and that perhaps there are better rhetorical techniques to achieve the same end.
I'm sure others found your tone perfectly reasonable, but I can only voice my own view of how it came across, and how it seemed harmful, not conducive to, open discussion.
The idea is we're helping each other search the state space of the world for what's true.
After all, getting someone to always convince you of things that are true is a really high bar. That means that person is effectively a coach or tutor to you. Usually you have to pay someone to do that.
This method allows us to exchange small messages that hint at information in a certain direction.
I say this as someone who has two tabs of LSD in my fridge left and about 100 g of shrooms so you know I'm not an anti-entheogen dude.