Eugine_Nier comments on Alternative Places to Get Ideas (Also, "In Defense of Food") - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 28 December 2010 04:49:33AM 3 points [-]

Ah. Then yeah that's a problem, but I'm not sure why this would be worse with recent research.

Because the earlier stuff, e.g., sanitation, vaccines, and antibiotics, had a stronger effect and thus was easier to notice above the noise.

Comment author: mwengler 01 January 2011 01:03:56AM 1 point [-]

And also the older stuff has been around long enough to get the bad results beaten out of it.

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