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Thanks, I needed a big laugh today. Your grasp of artificial selection is completely ludicrous.
Wow, you totally fail at reading comprehension.
Hint: the word "selection" has meanings besides the biological one.
Still implausible. At which point did willpower factor in the career path of an aspiring 19th-century doctor (in a way that it doesn't today)?
I never said it doesn't today.
Your earlier comment implied that there was something specific about 19th-century doctors that prevented them from realizing how dangerous cocaine was. Today we know it's dangerous. What did you intend to say was different about doctors back then?
The fact that today we have data on its effects on people who aren't high-willpower doctors.
You're answering a different question. First you said 19th-century doctors were especially willpowered, then you said willpower is also a factor in today's doctors. Now you say the difference is not willpower but the population examined. You're not only not giving any evidence for you claims; you're running in circles.
Reread my comments again. Your failure at basic English comprehention is not my problem.
I think he's saying that the original population didn't notice it because of high willpower, then it get into the mainstream population who didn't have as high willpower, at which point we began to get data on the effects in a low willpower situation.