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@shit-piss-love said in RL Peeves:
How is “this works for me” medical advice? Y’all on the wrong side of this it’s okay to get off the train.
I thought it was rather obvious I was talking about/to @Wizz, not you. You know. The one giving medical-sounding advice.
He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
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@Pax Even if WebMD will always tell you it’s cancer. I mean, it’s probably not, but it’s usually that or an aneurysm
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Because you also started rattling off about studies with me, my dude, so it was a little ambiguous. But okay, duly noted!
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@shit-piss-love said in RL Peeves:
How is “this works for me” medical advice? Y’all on the wrong side of this it’s okay to get off the train.
I thought it was rather obvious I was talking about/to @Wizz, not you. You know. The one giving medical-sounding advice.
Yup. I admit my eyes glaze over when people start popping off with the ASCKSHUALLY in response to a lived experience. I popped off in response and hit you with a stray my bad homie.
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Because you also started rattling off about studies with me, my dude, so it was a little ambiguous. But okay, duly noted!
I cited a study and briefly explained it, yes. I then briefly outlined that it wasn’t something to be relied upon given the small sample sizes involved and the brief timespan.
I didn’t use uncited claims to try and disprove someone’s lived experience, and then try to claim ‘objectivity.’
ETA: For clarity, when I say not to rely upon it I mean that it cannot form the foundation of your thesis or argument, but it can be used in conjunction with other studies as they come. And always with the proviso that the knowledge we do have is limited in both demographic scope and timespan.
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Got some more of them studies? My dad’s traumatic brain injury used to hit him with 50-100 icepick-in-the-skull headaches a day until he started taking a small amount of marijuana and now he gets them a few times a week. I wanna let him know it’s all in his head so he can go back to being suicical.
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I have been a dick lately and it’s just as exhausting for me, so I am just going to say sorry for crossing this line and souring everyone’s morning. I don’t know what my problem is, I am just under loads of stress and anxiety and lots of flashback stuff has been coming up, and I actually-objectively really shouldn’t be coming here to spout off in that state of mind.
Do whatever is good for you, and I will just try to not put my foot in my mouth for a while.
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@shit-piss-love Well, strictly speaking most pain management is in the head. Or at least in the nervous system.
But in terms of pain management there have been more studies around marijuana and other cannabinoids. A recent study (Maharajan et al., 2019) has suggested that it can be useful as a treatment for certain kinds of pain (I’m not a pain expert, so I’m not entirely clear on what all the different kinds of pain mean) but not for others, especially certain kinds of chronic pain.
It also has warnings about overuse leading to cognitive problems and such.
If you’re actually interested I can send you the pdf of the study.
Maharajan, M. K., Yong, Y. J., Yip, H. Y., Woon, S. S., Yeap, K. M., Yap, K. Y., Yip, S. C., & Yap, K. X. (2019). Medical cannabis for chronic pain: Can it make a difference in pain management? Journal of Anesthesia, 34(1), 95–103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00540-019-02680-y
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As a cororolry to all of this, I suppose, there’s a few things one should be aware of when reading scientific literature.
The first is that it’s obviously written for a professional audience, and may contain nuance or supposed expectation that we, as non-experts, just don’t parse.
But secondly, and most importantly (especially to my area of psych research, actually) not every study gets published. If the study doesn’t “prove” something, or otherwise bring about new information it’s generally not worth publishing - in the opinion of journal editors. So any study that says there’s no link between X and Y is less likely to be published than one that says there is a link, even if that link is tenuous.
Third is obviously bias. When looking at published work, it’s best practice (at least as a student) to also look into who wrote the article. Not as a way to appeal to authority, but to inspect their funding source, their area of expertise. Not to go all conspiracy theorist on you, but I doubt Big Pharma would want “marijunana good, actually” papers being published when they have scores of researchers in need of funding and a little coaxing…
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today my RL peeve is people who don’t pick up after their dog. I scoop turds like a dedicated champion but people still mutter at me when I walk past with my little poopy angels because SOMEONE ELSE didn’t clean up after their dog, usually because “it’s just a little one”.
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Unfortunately the evidence we do have says one thing, and many reported anecdotes say another. But the evidence we have is scanty and of small scale.
One of the shittier impacts of prohibition, particularly the way cannabis has been classified in the US, is how it salted the earth for legitimate medical studies for decades. I feel like we’re playing catch-up now but there’s still a long way to go and in the meantime it’s very frustrating to sort through anecdotes, junk science, and stuff that was probably done with an agenda other than actual research.
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- People react differently.
- There are always outliers.
- Study results can be skewed to agree with the bias of the investigator.
- Placebo effect is a thing.
Conclusion: Who knows at this point. Have a drink, take a toke, watch some Netflix, relax.
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It usually isn’t one big thing that forces good teachers out.
It is not having a key to a door you need to, or an email scolding you because one of your kids went to the bathroom and didn’t fully latch the door behind them.
Being told x% of your kids are behind when the system used to evaluate it is known to be flawed and throw false results.
It is having to take a week off of teaching that wasn’t built into your year plan for an EXTRA school wide test that will just show exactly what you know about your kids already.
It is covering classes during your prep multiple times a week.
It is the angry parent who won’t accept that yes their child DID in fact do the thing you called them about and you aren’t lying to them.
I don’t understand why any of us keep doing this… and I love teaching.
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@junipersky said in RL Peeves:
It usually isn’t one big thing that forces good teachers out.
It is not having a key to a door you need to, or an email scolding you because one of your kids went to the bathroom and didn’t fully latch the door behind them.
Being told x% of your kids are behind when the system used to evaluate it is known to be flawed and throw false results.
It is having to take a week off of teaching that wasn’t built into your year plan for an EXTRA school wide test that will just show exactly what you know about your kids already.
It is covering classes during your prep multiple times a week.
It is the angry parent who won’t accept that yes their child DID in fact do the thing you called them about and you aren’t lying to them.
I don’t understand why any of us keep doing this… and I love teaching.
All these and many more are why I quit teaching. It is a job that is almost universally mistreated, undervalued, underpaid, and misrepresented. Teachers are essentially asked to score baskets from the three-point line with their hands tied behind their backs.
Fuck that. If the world wants to be stupid, good luck.
In Occam I trust.
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@junipersky said in RL Peeves:
It usually isn’t one big thing that forces good teachers out.
It is not having a key to a door you need to, or an email scolding you because one of your kids went to the bathroom and didn’t fully latch the door behind them.
Being told x% of your kids are behind when the system used to evaluate it is known to be flawed and throw false results.
It is having to take a week off of teaching that wasn’t built into your year plan for an EXTRA school wide test that will just show exactly what you know about your kids already.
It is covering classes during your prep multiple times a week.
It is the angry parent who won’t accept that yes their child DID in fact do the thing you called them about and you aren’t lying to them.
I don’t understand why any of us keep doing this… and I love teaching.
All these and many more are why I quit teaching. It is a job that is almost universally mistreated, undervalued, underpaid, and misrepresented. Teachers are essentially asked to score baskets from the three-point line with their hands tied behind their backs.
Fuck that. If the world wants to be stupid, good luck.
It’s like you’re inside my head. All of this.
It seems a startlingly universal view, at least in WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialised, rich, democratic) countries.
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At least in the US, education has become mistrusted so it follows that those who impart education shouldn’t be given the tools or resources necessary to corrupt the minds of the children with “woke” talking points. Like actual history.
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American Girl released their latest Historical doll characters.
They’re from 1999.
That’s not okay.
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