why aren't all 8 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 2 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Opinion
Shkreli: BPC-157 is a scam with zero therapeutic value
“BPC-one-five-seven is the biggest scam I've ever seen. It does absolutely nothing. There's no redeemable value to this.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2031
Shkreli: No clinical trial of BPC-157 will ever work
“I would bet anything. I would bet anything. No trial of BPC would work.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Marchione: Millions of patients have taken BPC-157 from thousands of doctors
“My statement is thousands do this. My other statement is that millions of patients have taken this. At least hundreds of thousands, I believe millions, have taken this.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2028
Marchione: FDA will soon make BPC-157 legal to compound
“I believe the FDA will make it legal to compound soon.”
Assertion Supported
Shkreli: Pharmaceutical company Pliva failed clinical trials for BPC-157
“Pleva was a local drug company in the Balkans. Very well-respected, in my head. Pleva actually licensed BPC and tried to do clinical trials for it, and guess what? They failed!”
Assertion Contradicted
Huberman: BPC-157 is very hard to test for in doping control
“You're going to see peptides like BPC one, five, seven, I believe is banned. But that's a naturally occurring gut peptide. Very hard to test for because you have tons of it circulating and the synthetic versions may or may not differ from that version as much …”
Disclosure
Marchione: We are in discussions to fund a clinical trial for BPC-157
“We're in the process of chatting with the people required to set up a clinical trial for this, because we will put our money where our mouth is”
Assertion Supported
Huberman: BPC-157 has solid animal studies but zero human clinical trials
“Like BPC- one five seven, right? You hear about that all the time is, will it accelerate healing? You know, the animal studies are solid. There's no human studies.”