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Medicine, as a field, is mostly quackery and bullshit. There's a reason the advice changes drastically every few years, and at any time there are 10 competing t
by cup 10y ago
Medicine, as a field, is mostly quackery and bullshit. There's a reason the advice changes drastically every few years, and at any time there are 10 competing treatments, each apparently supported by some number of reputable scientific authorities.
We do not have the predictive power at this time to make authoritative recommendations about how each and every person should be treated, except for fairly straightforward things like "cut out a tumour".
Check again 50 years or so. Maybe by then you can walk into a medical clinic, get a DNA and gut ecosystem analysis, and walk out with a new, synthetic digestive tract.
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To shit all over nutritionists because you don't understand the science or don't think the science is moving fast enough for your liking isn't helpful. Science is science. We scoff at the shamans of last centuries, and in a few centuries from now we'll be scoffed at too.
- wyager 10y ago> To shit all over nutritionists because you don't understand the science What makes you think A) that's my motivation or B) I don't understand the science? I'm not a nutritionist, but I'm well-versed in statistics and hypothesis testing, so I am at least equipped to make general observations about the predictive power of the field. > or don't think the science is moving fast enough When did I ever say anything to that effect? The hard biological sciences are moving extremely quickly, and soon nutrition will be subsumed into computational chemistry like the rest. > Science is science. And some fields of science have very low predictive power, like current nutrition. Do you really put psychology on the same ground as particle physics? > We scoff at the shamans of last centuries, and in a few centuries from now we'll be scoffed at too. This is pretty much exactly what I'm saying about nutritionists, but for some reason you appear to be mad at me about it.
- thanks4it 10y agoStatistics is full of p hacking bullshit. You can mislead and lie with stats and stull sound intelligent. You being a case in point. It's funny you mention psychology, they don't accept p-value assholes in their journals any longer. You have a hammer and see nails. Foolish little fuck you are.
- zaphar 10y agoMedical advice doesn't in fact change every few years. It's pretty steady actually. Your analogy fails to make it's point in a comparison between nutrition science and medical science nutrition science comes out way way behind. If medical science did change as often as nutrition science and had as adverse an effect overall as nutrition science has had we'd probably all still be going to our local shaman instead.