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Not science != not true
by shardinator 8y ago
Not science != not true
- 52-6F-62 8y agoNobody said that. The point was `not science != science` Science is a course to best-effort prove things to be true—to that end it's been the most successful yet. The reason it's been successful is rigorous testing and data-gathering. And intellectual honesty. That's another discussion, maybe.
- shardinator 8y agoYes fair enough, good points.
- gus_massa 8y agoI agree, but if something really works the profit seeking soulless bigpharma corporation will run a clinical experiment and start to sell it in bottles. So if some cure is true and has a wide profitable market, it will be part of science soon. Most of the traditional cures that worked has been absorbed in science and are no longer call "traditional". What we call "traditional" are the leftovers.
- shardinator 8y agoNope, it's the other way around. Because they can't protect the recipe there are no profits to be made and therefore no incentive to run trials. It get's worse. If a traditional recipe works better, doctors can't prescribe that because it's 'untested' and in the end we get people paying more for inferior products.