It's an existential problem for the species that we can encode into our structures conceptions of the way the universe works that are measurably wrong Bloodlet

It's an existential problem for the species that we can encode into our structures conceptions of the way the universe works that are measurably wrong Bloodletting is well understood that it doesn't work but there was a time where the most trusted people performed that Why is that even possible? There was absolutely no epistemic proof that bloodletting was associated with a falsifiable hypothesis which would lead to improved health outcomes - in fact it was all based on these "humors" in the body that needed to be "balanced" which makes no mathematical sense whatsoever. Even then, as early as the 1400s there were scientists saying "This is actually bad" - and yet George Washington had bloodletting done on him in his dying repose at the end of the 1700s 300 years of an activity that is bad for you that was encoded into medical practice The conclusion we should come to is that MOST of our assumptions about the structure of the world and how to optimize within it, are based on literally nothing but aggregated social velocity, instead of claims that are measurable and testable