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While it can often seem that way, that lack of scientific studies is 'holding us back'... consider the alternative. Leaded gasoline. Thalidomide. Eugenics.
by otakucode 9y ago
While it can often seem that way, that lack of scientific studies is 'holding us back'... consider the alternative. Leaded gasoline. Thalidomide. Eugenics. Slipshod scientific rigor and a willingness to cut corners because things "seemed right" has a horrendous body count.
- RobertRoberts 9y ago>... cut corners because things "seemed right" has a horrendous body count. I don't disagree, but I would emphasize your phrase "cut corners". I think there's an diametrically opposite approach to health between "guessing for a cure" and "guessing for a cause". People who used leeches to suck their blood out were "guessing it helped", where people who sought out clean air and clean water for say tuberculosis for example, weren't "guessing a cure", they knew clean air and water were good for you, even if it didn't cure the disease, it should at least help. I think this same logic applies in the issue of obesity/[cancer|any health issue]. Maybe it's not a cure, but it can't hurt until we know more.