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2026-07-19 20:42 UTC
My pharma professors liked to say that if Aspirin was discovered today, it would never pass the bar for human trials, because after all these years the mechanism of action isn’t properly understood.
That’s the best argument for alternative medicines that I’ve heard, and it’s also something to consider when we think about how insanely high the bar is for compounds that are approved as medicines.
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@Viceversa@lemmy.world 2026-07-20 07:30
because after all these years the mechanism of action isn’t properly understood. That wasn’t a blocker with antidepressants, for better or worse.