unexposedhazard ( @unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ) English32•12 days agoYeah 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.
FundMECFS ( @FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English18•12 days agoYep. Thank fuck we invented double blind RCTs.
Otherwise placebo effects might have us still convinced blood letting with leeches works.
djsoren19 ( @djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English7•12 days agoI mean, bloodletting is rarely a valid treatment, and leeches can be good for it. The issue was more that it was overprescribed.
Kidplayer_666 ( @Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ) English28•12 days agoDude, how else do you hope to even start comprehending everything else out there! Measuring it makes it even more beautiful
Phoenixz ( @phoenixz@lemmy.ca ) English11•11 days agoYeah, 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
TimewornTraveler ( @TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ) English11•12 days agowhoever 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
lefaucet ( @lefaucet@slrpnk.net ) English8•11 days agoWell, 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
Darkmoon_UK ( @Darkmoon_UK@lemm.ee ) English7•11 days agoTrash post.
projektilski ( @projektilski@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•11 days agoI’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
It’s an absurdist joke. X)
psivchaz ( @psivchaz@reddthat.com ) English2•11 days agoYeah but have you seen the state of things? One man’s absurdist joke is apparently another man’s deeply held belief right now.
:( 4chan why did you become this
blackbrook ( @blackbrook@mander.xyz ) English3•12 days agoThat looks like an image from a pharmaceutical commercial, so I’d say it’s a little late for that.
porcelainpitcher ( @porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today ) English2•12 days agoFrickn 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.”
JayDee ( @JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org ) English1•11 days agoCareful 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.
porcelainpitcher ( @porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today ) English1•11 days agoYou 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?