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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Yep. Thank fuck we invented double blind RCTs.

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I mean, bloodletting is rarely a valid treatment, and leeches can be good for it. The issue was more that it was overprescribed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Bloodletting was dismissed in the 1870s. The first double blind rct was 1943.

Additionally, we use leeches for certain situations.

In the last 25 years leech therapy has made a comeback in the area of microsurgery and reimplantation sur­gery. Hirudo medicinalis can secrete several biologically active substances including hyaluronidase, fibrinase, proteinase inhibitors, and hirudin, an anticoagulant.

The leech can help reduce venous congestion and prevent tissue necrosis. In this way it can be used in the postoperative care of skin grafts and reimplanted fingers, ears, and toes. Because of concern regarding second­ary infections a “mechanical leech” has been developed at the University of Wisconsin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks professor, clearly we were wrong for thinking double blind is good if the leeches were dismissed without it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Wow... You okay?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago

Dude, how else do you hope to even start comprehending everything else out there! Measuring it makes it even more beautiful

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

We saw it and thought 'we should invent a process that prevents us from falling prey to the naturalistic fallacy'.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, I gotta downvote this one, those trials save lives and make it possible to manage diseases that would otherwise cripple us.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So far I have never excited anyone this much in my entire life

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's what your wife told us all

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I wish I had a wife

Edit: don't tell my boyfriend

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

whoever wrote this has no idea what those words mean. they could have picked a million things scarier than that, and more confusing. quote some fuckin tax code

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Yeah, no.

Humans saw measles, hunger, suffering, etc and decided to come up with science. Double blind trials and all are part of that to make it better and more reliable.

I get this is a meme, but this is kinda out there

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Well, after we ate that bowl of flowers and got the runs for 3 days straight, killing Bob, we wondered to which flowers are the toxic ones

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Close your eyes, that's as close as you'll get.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Magnifying glass (you know, to burn stuff)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Open your eyes, Children of the Lense! Harness the power of the Unbridled Star!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

IT IS GOD'S PROVIDENCE WHERE THE SUN SHINES. MAN IS NOT TO MEDDLE IN SUCH MATTERS! REPENT NOW OR FACE YOUR GOD IN MORTAL KOMBAT!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's just re-aiming an inconsequential fraction of some of the sun's waste energy. Not control.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Trash post.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm sorry but this is horse shit. Double blind tests are there for a reason. It's clear that OP does not understand how useful blind tests are and ist scientific purpose. He is probably an audiophile who was told that speaker wire do not make a difference when he bought overpriced cables :D

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's an absurdist joke. X)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah but have you seen the state of things? One man's absurdist joke is apparently another man's deeply held belief right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

:( 4chan why did you become this

[–] And009 2 points 1 month ago

I too prefer 32 core copper cable with 99% purity, sugar coated for reduced emf and distortion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That looks like an image from a pharmaceutical commercial, so I'd say it's a little late for that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Things to look forward to as you get older: You will understand fewer and fewer random things on the Internet.

[–] And009 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Frickn white dudes, probly. I once saw an article by a Native American that read like: "We lived with the land, hunted during day, and had sex at night. Only White Man would think he could improve on that."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Hmm hm... And what preventable diseases did people die of? What was the percentage of child death? How many people died from infection due to injury?

Also, blaming this on "white dudes" is throwing every other civilization that developed medicine, farming, and housing under the bus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Careful with the noble savage fallacy. Europe was constantly ravaged by disease due to animal domestication, in ways the Americas were not. Many Native American civilizations created insane mathematical, ecological, and civil wonders during their existences. They 100% would have used double-blind studies if they had any major reason to advance medicine prior to Europeans bringing plagues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You mean like permaculture and irrigation? Yeah, that stuff was dope. Should I have put '/s' at the end of my comment to make it clear that, whilst true, I wasn't defending a position?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Dude these comments are a bunch of buzz kills