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• Senal@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  that’s the exact opposite of what i was saying.

  Nowadays we can potentially evaluate what is considered “alternative” for actual benefit, and if found then elevate it to actual medical science.

  If it’s not considered beneficial we can discard (for now), perhaps a fresh look later when our tooling and understanding has improved.

  That way we can try to gain benefit where possible, and definitively ( for the current level of technology and resource ) suggest people kindly not overdose on de-wormer because we’ve scientifically determined it’s stupid and potentially lethal.

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  • Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Formal science isn’t the only source of potential hypotheses.

    It’s hard to believe that, considering all low hanging fruits were picked already and now new hypotheses are obtained through hard work of teams of scientists.

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    • Senal@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      All low hanging fruits we know of.

      This is one of those unknown unknown situations where there are things were don’t even know to be looking for.

      Like microbes, yes we posited something like them, but the full implications the confirmation weren’t understood until after.

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      • Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You believe a layman is still able to discover something in medicine. We’ll see.

        Various new snake oils (ivermectin or urine for cancer , COVID and whatnot) sure aren’t it.

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