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I knew about the vitamin studies previously, and I also, from experience discussing it with friends, know how upset people become. Its really something people w
by galago 12y ago
I knew about the vitamin studies previously, and I also, from experience discussing it with friends, know how upset people become. Its really something people want to believe in.
- zo1 12y agoI can understand the appeal. Vitamins are a sort of "quick fix". All you have to do is pop a pill every day and magically you get benefits x, y and z. There is quite a bit of helplessness involved in life, and vitamins allow people to believe that they have an easy way to control their body. Sure it may be the case. Vitamins probably do help lubricate and enhance all sorts of things, which is intuitive. But that "intuitive" property is exactly the sort of thing we need to watch out for. If a solution/answer seems intuitive, then that pretty much means it has a back-door around our usual bullshit detectors.