War and peace is my white whale, I’ve tried a few times. I’ll put it down for a while as I often do with books but when I pick it back up I’m completely lost in who is who and where I am.
Had a few buddies that were welders and they talked me into it. Turns out you make a shit load of money and it’s cool as fuck. Sucks working away from my wife and son for stretches but I can’t imagine being as happy doing anything else.
Of course, and the authors of the pro safe supply papers Dr. Somers cited as well. Which seemed to show that the current data didn’t support safe supply.
Fair point. From the research paper itself his standards for studies he cited were:
From a CBC article another commenter here posted, the BCCSU’s issues with his paper are as follows: “Its conclusion is not based on existing evidence; It does not accurately describe safer supply interventions; It does not accurately portray the preferences of people who use drugs; It mischaracterizes the research expertise of those currently evaluating safer supply; Recommendations that go beyond safe supply are not based on scientific evidence”
Then, from the original posted article: “The letter’s signatories (the matrix) didn’t mention that they were the authors of the papers we reviewed or that they received funding linked to PSAD.”
Unfortunately it gets political and enters a grey area of “yes that’s my data and no it doesn’t currently support this but you’re not interpreting it the way I did and my way is right”
Apologies for the wall of text
Dude never apologize for an educated informative rant like that. I wasn’t familiar with the different orthographies before, now I’ve learned something new so thank you. And I absolutely agree with the points you made even more so now that I know a little more.
Yes. I’ll take the word of the man with a doctorate studying the topic at hand putting his reputation on the line versus an anonymous source saying they’re wrong. Or can we only trust the ones whose views aline with our own regardless of substance?
It’s written by a university professor with a doctorate in clinical psychology who is activity involved with the subject at hand. But fuck the natpo right?
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