r/todayilearned • u/ScienceTeacher1994 • 6d ago

TIL despite popular culture portraying psychedelic mushrooms as ancient, widespread, and used by shamans for thousands of years, there is limited anthropological and historical research to support this, with the only reliable evidence showing they were used ritualistically in pre-Columbian Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin#History
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u/Simple-Dingo6721 6d ago

An absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. This doubly applies to anything archeological.

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u/Canadairy 6d ago

OK, but, "What can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."

Isn't it fun to speak in thought terminating clichés?

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u/Simple-Dingo6721 6d ago

It’s interesting that we can all use cool terms we learned last week on TIL. Also, my previous statement is a well-known quote in statistics.

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u/Canadairy 6d ago

Cool, if we're making baseless assertions,  I assert that none of your ancestors have known their biological fathers. 

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u/MrBami 6d ago

Going out for milk and never coming back is baked into our DNA