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by passionfruit 4883 days ago
This article makes some bad analogies. Showing the structure of two different molecules and acting aghast that someone would choose one over the other is like saying all digital information is 1's and 0's so it's all the same. Or it's like saying all words are just a bunch of the same letters therefore they have no meaning.
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The point being that people react to the name and the classification ("natural" vs "chemical"), and they should be reacting to the scientifically verified effects and side-effects.
Choosing one over the other because of how they are named is ridiculous -- not because of their composition.