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> why I should trust medical advice from a book written before germ theory was widely accepted? Why do you think how to live healthy is a modern invention? Don

• wilsonnb3 2y ago
  Because medical science was in its infancy in 1870 and you should only trust medical advice from then if it is obvious, like don't light yourself on fire, or it has been substantiated and backed up with peer reviewed science at some point in the last 150 years. Your argument is just a mix of the appeal to nature fallacy and noble savage trope that people use to justify all sorts of medical treatments with no proven benefits.
  • breck 2y ago
    > no proven benefits. The Romans had great health. Proof: here we are thousands of years later alive and using their letters.
    • wkat4242 2y ago
      I know you're not serious but they were poisoning themselves with lead. Arguments have even been made that ends led to their downfall.
• wkat4242 2y ago
  > Why do you think how to live healthy is a modern invention? Don't you think people had to figure that out ages ago, or else we wouldn't be here? Not really, no. They had many ideas about health that we know are false now. And we still don't know a lot. Generally people died really young in those days. But these things don't really matter for the population continuity if people get sick after they get kids, and they used to have them really early in those days (and many). They just didn't usually live until their 90s. And of course knowing how to live healthy and actually doing it are different things too. It's something we really struggle with as a society and me too.