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warfarin

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warfarin

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warfarin is a recurring brand in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 05, 2021 and December 06, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Drug 2 is warfarin, which causes 40,000 ER visits a year”; “Does this include warfarin, where getting the dose slightly wrong makes you bleed to death?“. It most often appears alongside Adderall, anarcho-primitivists, Anthony Fauci.

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  • Category: Brands
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: February 05, 2021
  • Last seen: December 06, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

WebMD, And The Tragedy Of Legible Expertise
February 05, 2021 · Original source
Drug 1 is aspirin. Drug 2 is warfarin, which causes 40,000 ER visits a year and is widely considered one of the most dangerous drugs in common use. I challenge anyone to figure out, using WebMD's side effects list alone, that warfarin is more dangerous than aspirin. I think this is because if WebMD said "aspirin is pretty safe and most people don't need to worry about it", people might use aspirin irresponsibly, die, and then their ghosts might sue WebMD. Or if WebMD said "warfarin can be dangerous, be careful with this one", people might refuse to take warfarin because "the Internet said it was dangerous", die of the stuff warfarin is supposed to treat, and then their ghosts might sue WebMD. WebMD solves this by never giving the tiniest shred of useful information to anybody.
Beyond "Abolish The FDA"
December 06, 2023 · Original source
And if we eliminate prescriptions, are all medications freely available at the corner store? Does this include warfarin, where getting the dose slightly wrong makes you bleed to death? Does it include MAOIs, where eating cheese after use makes your blood vessels explode? Obviously you put these things on the label, but is it in bigger or smaller print than “this blood-vessel-exploding medication contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer”? Don’t all reasonable people ignore labels because they’re useless? And who decides what side effects are so bad you need to put them on the label? (right now it’s the FDA)