There absolutely is more money to be made in natural remedies, these days. People are selling chakra activating light emitting bracelets online citing studies that find no physical evidence of chakras. We live in a mad world.
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audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
It’s not entirely wrong. There is absolutely a bias in what gets studied simply because it requires money to be given to study most things. For example, it’s why some more natural remedies like taking fish oil to help lower cholesterol took so long to have actual scientific backing; there’s no money in widely available remedies so finding funding to do the study was difficult.
You can see this really clearly if you look at more politicized areas, like economics. And for what it’s worth, it doesn’t mean that the evidence that’s generated is bad (although the conclusions drawn from it may be), but that it results in a lack of evidence for opposing viewpoints.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
All those studies being funded by mars to make chocolate seem healthy. it was on last week tonight
snooggums@midwest.social 4 months ago
Wine producers were behind wine being “healthy in moderation” roo.
uberfreeza@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Which I find to be such an excellent example. Since red wine has prolonged contact with grape skins, letting it keep a lot of the flavonoids. It’s not incorrect exactly, but you’d still be better off eating grapes or drinking grape juice.