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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Yeah because there are snakes and insects and herbs and stuff out there and we gotta know how they work and which ones are useful. We are just min maxing our survival strategy to a degree where it doesnt look like survival strategy anymore.

[-] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Yep. Thank fuck we invented double blind RCTs.

Otherwise placebo effects might have us still convinced blood letting with leeches works.

[-] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

What's absolutely insane about it is that we literally got here by accident. Some homeopathic crank was selling diluted poison water to people, so he created a double blind test to prove his "medicine" was actually better than doing nothing and telling someone they would feel better, which ended up proving him absolutely wrong conclusively along with creating the wellspring of all medical advancement in the last century.

Behind the bastards did a series on the guy who invented this, and how he was a charlatan who's only achievement was creating the means of proving himself wrong lmao Added a link if you want to check it out

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