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>MDMA is risky, and you probably shouldn’t use it

I don't understand how the author can come to this conclusion after describing almost every mentioned paper as unreliable for one reason or another.

As far as I know there is still very little in the way of consistent and/or rigorous evidence that even moderate recreational doses are harmful.

I would argue that if it is this uncertain as to whether or not the drug is harmful, then it is unlikely to have significant detrimental effects. Subcultures tend to build stigma toward obviously dangerous substances - most drug users would caution you to stay away from heroin or meth, for example, because the damage is obvious. If harmful MDMA effects are so subtle as to be effectively undetectable in the collective anecdote of millions of recreational users, then at the very least occasional use must not be so risky.