“state certified harm reduction counselor here”
Which means almost nothing. Unless you’re a pharmacologist, or a neuroscientist (as I am), please refrain from giving scientific opinions in this field.
Which means almost nothing. Unless you’re a pharmacologist, or a neuroscientist (as I am), please refrain from giving scientific opinions in this field.
It's one thing to say "here's how my opinion is educated" and quite another to say "only my opinion matters and those others don't".
Holy cow do you hear yourself? Didn't we just have someone run for US president recently who was famously stupid and ignorant despite being a neurosurgeon? So you're a neuroscientist? Big fucking whoop. I'm sure your mom is proud.
Seems like you didn’t quite think that analogy through.
Being educated enough to be accredited in some field does not automatically prove either intelligence or wisdom, let alone character or integrity, even IN that field, and so is merely a data point to consider and not the end of all conversation when they voice an opinion, even in their claimed wheelhouse.
One can be very smart and very informed on a topic, and also be an asshole whose opinions on that topic and most others should be disregarded because their motivations are shit.
But one way you can judge some of those things is by the difference between the two types of statements in my first comment.
9/10 doctors think boobs feel like sand.