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by yjftsjthsd-h 1449 days ago
> “your humours are imbalanced and you should be bled, you’ll feel better” is not far off from “your iron level is too high”, though…

The difference is that now we have both empirical evidence that it works, when it works, what the side effects are, and generally why it works. As opposed to cargo culting, poor cost/benefit analysis, and inaccurate understanding of what's actually happening.

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we have a much better model now, i agree.