Trying to separate three different claims about modafinil: that it is the right molecule, that it is the right dose, and that it does something useful.
Most of the popular protocols are borrowed from clinical populations and applied to healthy people without comment.
Loose evidence is not the same as no evidence and people overcorrect in both directions.
Happy to be corrected on any of the above.
A plausible mechanism is not an outcome, and this class is the textbook example.
What is the first thing you would read if you were starting from zero?
If it needs three other compounds to notice, you have not tested the first one.
Three questions kill most of the confidence in a thread like this: sample size, blinding, who paid.
How long before you can reasonably say something is or is not doing anything? Jaw tension was my main issue with modafinil too.