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al_chemist | 4 years ago

Can you share an example of real science where advice changed as more data come in?

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joshspankit|4 years ago

The answers to this are so numerous and the logic so obvious that we as citizens may be to close to even see them.

Pretty much every bit of advice in the health sciences has been changing over multiple generations (lead and xrays are two easy examples from over 50 years ago)

psychiatrist24|4 years ago

But if you have witnessed that, wouldn't it be prudent to remain doubtful about any new advice coming from the field? After all, the probability of it being thrown out in the future seems to be almost 100%?

dekhn|4 years ago

Smoking tobacco would be the simplest example.

pvaldes|4 years ago

Anything related with astronomy, for example.

Pasteur, Galileo, Einstein, Wegener...