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
Things to look forward to as you get older: You will understand fewer and fewer random things on the Internet.
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
That looks like an image from a pharmaceutical commercial, so I’d say it’s a little late for that.
I’m sorry, I gotta downvote this one, those trials save lives and make it possible to manage diseases that would otherwise cripple us.
How’s this?
YES!
YEEESS!
So far I have never excited anyone this much in my entire life
That’s what your wife told us all
I wish I had a wife
We saw it and thought ‘we should invent a process that prevents us from falling prey to the naturalistic fallacy’.
I wanna control the sun
Close your eyes, that’s as close as you’ll get.
Magnifying glass (you know, to burn stuff)?
That’s just re-aiming an inconsequential fraction of some of the sun’s waste energy. Not control.
HERETIC!
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.
Yep. Thank fuck we invented double blind RCTs.
Otherwise placebo effects might have us still convinced blood letting with leeches works.
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.
Thanks professor, clearly we were wrong for thinking double blind is good if the leeches were dismissed without it.
Wow… You okay?
I mean, bloodletting is rarely a valid treatment, and leeches can be good for it. The issue was more that it was overprescribed.
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
Dude, how else do you hope to even start comprehending everything else out there! Measuring it makes it even more beautiful
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.”
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.
