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Come on, it is just words. There are millions of people who, say, quit smocking/drinking without any therapy or medication, just because they have realized they doesn't need it anymore. Is this a part of science or not?)

OK, just once.) There is a distinct process of memeization of science is going on, it is not even pop-science it is all about deriving memes from memes.

There is no secret that vast majority of studies are performed to "keep the funding going" with conclusions that would please the investors - "they cannot caught us after all". Most of these recent cancer/blood papers are not even reproducible, leave alone verifiable.

Doing non-meme science is much harder, much less profitable comparing to publishing fiction/sensationalist papers. It is a duty, not a business.

There are millions of so-called studies. "Mediterranean Diet is the most healthy one." Really? Have they factored out the water quality and air quality? How exactly? What accounts to air quality and what to the quality of water sources? In what extent? In the long run?

This is most obvious and silly example, but others are even more messy. How so-called state of stress is related to production of this or that hormones or other chemicals? How exactly it affects so-called metabolism? How they resolved sleeping issues, noise levels in the environment, air quality, diet?

The systems they are trying to study is vastly complex and correlations, even if such were discovered, not mere assumed, are not causation, and definitely not single ones.

So, to blindly follow what other people label "modern science" is, to some extent, is exactly the same as to follow a religion - just accept on faith because they said so, without asking any questions. This is meme-based, pop "science" which cannot be trusted.




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