Curated! This is a fantastic response, in-depth yet readable, and considering many different angles of attack. I personally found the widespread lack of the other associated side-effects of lithium to be the most convincing single point, but it’s the multiple lines of attack together that pushes me to disbelieve the lithium hypothesis.
I really like the vision for doing science on the blogosphere that Slime Mold Time Mold has, that includes readable and detailed online collections of scientific mysteries combined with active research (outside of academia), and I have respect for people who do the work to make their vision a reality. It unfortunately seems to me like the clues they put together had a lot of false-positives and missed a lot of evidence, and this critique seems compelling to me personally on this issue.
I note I will appreciate any further checks of Natalia’s post and claims in the comments, and if someone ends up with a different view and writes a further post in this conversation (e.g. the folks from Slime Mold Time Mold!) I’d enjoy curating such a post.
(By the way, this is our first curated post that is a podcast at-the-time of curating, so all the people on the mailing list can also listen to it on Spotify/Apple Podcasts/Libsyn/etc, which I’ve edited into the top of the post.)
Curated! This is a fantastic response, in-depth yet readable, and considering many different angles of attack. I personally found the widespread lack of the other associated side-effects of lithium to be the most convincing single point, but it’s the multiple lines of attack together that pushes me to disbelieve the lithium hypothesis.
I really like the vision for doing science on the blogosphere that Slime Mold Time Mold has, that includes readable and detailed online collections of scientific mysteries combined with active research (outside of academia), and I have respect for people who do the work to make their vision a reality. It unfortunately seems to me like the clues they put together had a lot of false-positives and missed a lot of evidence, and this critique seems compelling to me personally on this issue.
I note I will appreciate any further checks of Natalia’s post and claims in the comments, and if someone ends up with a different view and writes a further post in this conversation (e.g. the folks from Slime Mold Time Mold!) I’d enjoy curating such a post.
(By the way, this is our first curated post that is a podcast at-the-time of curating, so all the people on the mailing list can also listen to it on Spotify/Apple Podcasts/Libsyn/etc, which I’ve edited into the top of the post.)