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It seems that the statement "blood flow doesn't tell you anything about neural activity" is definitely not true: https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/brain-metrics/what_does...

Also, it seems dangerous to suggest rejecting studying a specific area because the scientific tools and our understanding around it are currently limited - this is what science is for after all. If we thought this way, we wouldn't have nutrition research.

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Nutrition research is famously inconsistent though?

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Terribly so. So we need more high-quality research, not to stop researching it. The scientific method can only get better by putting it in practice.

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Or we need to recognize some fundamental limits on what is measureable