> Sure, you won't find studies of people who fried their neurons by using Modafinil for 10 years in a row, but that's because Modafinil isn't that old yet.
Actually, it is. Even ignoring all the animal and French experiments etc, Cephalon got FDA approval and started selling it in the US in... 1997? 1998? That's close to 14 years now.
This is why blogs with no comments annoy me - how is the author supposed to find out that he made an obvious mistake? Or for that matter his claim modafinil is more amphetamine-like that proponents claim - well, I'm a proponent but at least when I claim it has little in common, I have [actual citations](http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil#fn11).
EDIT: I checked; it was approved in December 1998, so 1 December 1998 - today is 13 years, 2 months, and 27 days.
Yes, so I can email him and hope he will update or edit or admit he's wrong, and also accept that by the time he does so most readers will be gone - rather than post a public comment he would specifically have to censor, and my correction be visible in time for most readers to see if they care to.
I hope you can see why I would regard one alternative as way better than the other.
Proving my point: a day later, with the comment on both Hacker News & Reddit, his incorrect claim remains. In fact, as far as I can tell, he has not edited it at all.
> Sure, you won't find studies of people who fried their neurons by using Modafinil for 10 years in a row, but that's because Modafinil isn't that old yet.
Actually, it is. Even ignoring all the animal and French experiments etc, Cephalon got FDA approval and started selling it in the US in... 1997? 1998? That's close to 14 years now.
This is why blogs with no comments annoy me - how is the author supposed to find out that he made an obvious mistake? Or for that matter his claim modafinil is more amphetamine-like that proponents claim - well, I'm a proponent but at least when I claim it has little in common, I have [actual citations](http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil#fn11).
EDIT: I checked; it was approved in December 1998, so 1 December 1998 - today is 13 years, 2 months, and 27 days.