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Oh well, there goes potentially thousands of years worth of medical knowledge, linguistic insight, etc.
by Alex3917 9y ago
Oh well, there goes potentially thousands of years worth of medical knowledge, linguistic insight, etc.
- bdcravens 9y agoThe article said about 10 villagers, not the entire village.
- folli 9y agoLet's wait another couple of years, with increasing logging operations in the region, the introduction of diseases that their immune system hasn't encountered before etc.
- ekianjo 9y ago> thousands of years worth of medical knowledge If that can somewhat reassure you, most of the "traditional medicines" once tested in proper clinical trials, are just about the same as placebo. I'm not saying all, but a good majority. And people used to die from simple infections way more before we had modern medicine with antibiotics and the like, so I'd rather count on modern medicine any day for discoveries and treatments.
- kamaal 9y agoThat is not the point. Staying in the jungle for a few thousand years leads you to optimize locally sourced flora and fauna to amazing levels to solve a range of medical conditions. That could be helpful to a lot of people in many social and financial conditions.
- messe 9y ago> Staying in the jungle for a few thousand years leads you to optimize locally sourced flora and fauna to amazing levels to solve a range of medical conditions. Do you have a source to back that up?
- kamaal 9y agoSource is thousands of years of human civilization before the industrial revolution. We weren't always taking asthma inhalers from Walgreen for the several thousands of years of our existence on this planet.
- azernik 9y agoThat's a specifically auto-immune issue, which has more to do with growing up in a mostly-sterile environment than with the loss of any ancient medical knowledge.
- logibly 9y agoDo you have a source to rule it out ??
- messe 9y agoNo, but I'm not the one making a claim.
- kamaal 9y agoNot sure what you are asking for here. You seem to asking for proof that humans for all these thousands of years of existence pre industrial revolution needed some kind of a health care system to survive. There are some things that go as an axiom.
- piva00 9y agoThat is not how an argument work. It's much harder (to the point of impossibility most often) to prove a negative, the burden of the claim always lies with the claimer.
- wmil 9y agoFrom what I recall the big issue is that tribal medical conditions are usually for things like parasites. Not for the sort of first world diseases we're looking for. The only exception is diabetes, because that's easy to spot by looking for sugar in urine.
- eternauta3k 9y agoMost might be ineffective. But it only takes one effective one.
- logibly 9y agothat's not true. Look around you. Turmeric for eg a "traditional medicine" coming flying through in most clinical trials. At least lot better then artificially high sample size to show some kind of statistical significance. This is just one example there are thousands more like these.
- otabdeveloper1 9y agoPerhaps the reason they're running around in loincloths in the year 2017 is because they don't prioritize 'knowledge' and 'insight' the way we do?