Jonathan_Graehl comments on Nootropics and Cognitive-enhancement Discussion Area - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 08 October 2010 10:58:24PM 0 points [-]

Yeah; it's shocking how badly a Wikipedia-cite can fail at living up to what's promised (sentence is edited without checking that cite supports the edited version?). I thought about making a correction but will probably pass.

By the way, I don't doubt that the Wikipedia sentence you quoted me is true; it's just that the cites (required by Wikipedia policy) are inappropriate - to our mutual surprise.

Comment author: gwern 09 October 2010 12:33:01AM 0 points [-]

Probably what happened is the sentence grew by accretion, and that cite about concussion victims being helped by piracetam was originally being used for something other than choline alleviating problems. There are tools to search through history, but I don't care enough to refind them.