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Clarity comments on Deworming a movement - Less Wrong Discussion

-6 Post author: Clarity 30 August 2015 09:25AM

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Comment author: Clarity 15 October 2015 06:42:32AM 0 points [-]

I was under the impression that specialists worried that mass deworming leads to resistance, by standard evolutionary logic, and so argue that the deworming initiatives are committing a long-term harm for nonexistent short-term gains.

That's one hypothesis, but there isn't much compelling evidence for it. Although there is good reason to believe the evidence for mass deworming as the among the 'best' interventions in shakey, there is not good reasons to believe it's a 'bad' intervention either.

Stylistically

Style isn't a big priority to me unless is compromises understandabiltiy by those interested enough to summount readability challenges. I assume that from their ownwards worthy concepts will prolliferate into the broader population.