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by throw_pm23 1230 days ago
Yes, but there are _kinds of_ interventions which turned out to be systematically harmful. For instance, in most developed countries it was a policy to thoroughly wash newborns, until they realized it was harmful.
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True, but if you look at the entire collection of kinds of intervention you'll find that the harmful kinds are also a small fraction of them.