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Hi for those who can read this.

This is a special hidden subforum where we can discuss (upcoming) science papers in a scientific setting.

Currently, besides the mods, only a few special people have access to this new subforum:
* benzyme
* laughingcat
* joedirt
* LaTorre

This subforum is initiated by Infundibulum due to the upcoming paper by LaTorre.


Kind regards,

The Traveler
 
Hi everyone!

As The Traver said, I asked him to make this subforum so that we can securely provide feedback and support to LaTorre, who plans on writing a review on dmt. Apart from the mods and LaTorre, 3 other members (benz, joe, laughingcat) who have good grasp of the dmt literature and/or experience in the nasty politics of scientific publication can see this subforum. However, if you guys feel that there are other members that could be of valuable help please propose them and The Traveler can grant them access.

My incentive for initiating this is that it is essential to have a thorough, well-written dmt review out there. Currently such a thing does not exist and a good, no-bs review might be the one that would spark dmt research interest in more academics. My main reason for wanting a pristine dmt review is that the published literature on psychedelics is much more limited compared to e.g. cancer biology. The issue therefore is that any misinformation/misquotings/misinterpretations written and published in a review will not be evened out by a larger body of better literature. As a result, poor statements published in a review (even a peer-reviewed paper) are more likely to linger around.

Maybe I am saying the above because I read one crappy review or original study too many lately and because the peer-review is grossly incomplete. I am a frequent paper reviewer and I am amazed how often the other reviewer (yes, each publication is only reviewed by 2 people only) to whose comments I normally have access, miss major methodological or interpretative flaws.

Aaaanyway. One way I have found useful when writing papers in collaboration with a bunch of other people of various affiliations is to provide them with a ms word document of the text onto which they can (after clicking the Track Changes option) re-write, add, correct portions of the text and/or add specific comments. But we might find a better way to work and communicate though this subforum, whichever way works better!

Cheers and thanks in advance for any help,
Infun
 
A general review on DMT is more likely to be a book-sized document. I also think it will mostly focus on sigma-1 receptors (maybe even touch TAARs briefly?) which would be more strategic as the more focused it is the easier it will be to put it out there.
 
Perfect! This is amazing 😁

As first, I'm sending to this guy who contacted me on the crowdfunding campaign website the italian version to translate it in english. I guess a month or so is required to make a nice english version. From there we can move. Meanwhile I take one night per week to organize the literauture and analyze the new papers.
One important part of the paper is to depict a potential experimental design to prove our speculation.


As I said in PMs everybody who will contribute to this effort is welcome to publish his/her name.

Again, thank you very much. What Nexus do is so imporant, and this specific effort – to me – is epecially important.


PS: yes my original idea is to watch at sigma-1 and briefly TAAR. A review on DMT, only on the molecular landscape will require more than 50000 words so it's not the target of this review.
 
Guys, just a quick update, I'll come back in next days.

There this italian guy that is doing his phD in Australia (here: Independent medical research institute) in pharmacology and who originally wanted to do it in Sigma-1 but eventually didn't make it. He is helping me translating it and I told him to join DMT nexus but he could not make a new account. If its ok I can post here his FB account so you can check. He seems a regular psy-goans who ends up to study pharmacology!
 
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