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Yes, I know how willow bark extract relates to aspirin. And if you think you've made a similarly important medical discovery you really shouldn't be making TED talks, but rather publishing in a journal first, and then maybe founding a medical startup to produce a medicine based on it.

Until you've demonstrated that you can actually make a safe and effective medicine based off of your discovery there really isn't much point in doing a TED or TEDx talk.



and that's what I said - twice - don't use TEDx for the next science discovery

I happened to use "willow bark extract" as my example because it would have been a red flag in the guidelines and last month was "Native American Heritage Month" in the US and it happened to come up as a bit of trivia.

I really don't know what you seem to think I am saying other than repeating what I said as some opposition. Whatever point seems to resonate with someone given my down votes.


At this point, I really wish all down voters had to give their reasons.

I give a perfectly fine example of something that would fit in the guidelines as a warning that you should probably discuss somewhere else and get down voted. Meanwhile Symmetry does two insulting posts which give the same point I already gave as if I was on the other side and I get down voted responding. I am well and truly at a loss.




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