alt Hacker NewsA significant part of science is plucking the true bits from common sense. A fair chunk of what we call medicine is folk remedies that stood up to rigorous testing.
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wavemode • today at 2:57 PM
Curious what you mean by this. There is very, very little medical knowledge today that aligns with historical folk wisdom.
(Even simple things like "an apple a day" - apples are fine, but foods like berries, kiwis and avocados tend to have both lower sugar and much higher nutritional content.)
perpetuallunch • today at 2:31 PM
Modern medicine is dominated by very new ideas and technologies.
Gene therapies, targeted cancer treatments, blood pressure medication, antibiotics, surgery, joint replacements, sterile practices, vaccines, hormone replacement therapies.
Yes, but the testing bit is what makes it a scientifically-proven method and not a folk remedy.
There are also a lot of folk remedies that have been disproven as medicine. They too were ‘common sense.’