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> An anecdote is one piece of data

It is not documented, so no, it is not. Which is why I questioned if it was entirely based on self assessment or not and left the door open either way as the question was based out of curiosity and if his anecdote was public I wanted the answer to be as well. Is that not fair?

> when those pieces of data come together it provides evidence.

When you properly document them it literally stops being an anecdote and then becomes evidence.

> The researchers also tested semaglutide in rats that were made dependent on alcohol through long-term exposure to alcohol vapor.

So.. what are we actually measuring then? Isn't alcoholism a disease and not some acquired exposure based dependency? The idea that "GLP-1 for Everything" is even floated in this way is unusual in and of itself. I'm uncomfortable with all this and am once again annoyed at the way we use rats in research.



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