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Love the fact that so many studies on health and diet will say "in a meta analysis of fifty studies we found no evidence that this treatment works" and then STILL recommend said treatment.
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"I'm not going to [some basic thing like covering your mouth when you sneeze, washing your hands after using the bathroom, get vaccinated, take all my antibiotics as prescribed] because I'm healthy and that 0.01% risk doesn't bother me!"
Okay, but here's the thing: you live in a society. And society always has someone else - person carrying a high-risk pregnancy, person going through chemotherapy, person with AIDS, elderly person whose immune system is doing devil-knows-what at this point - for whom that IS too much of a risk. You want to be the one who got them sick with the disease that killed them?
Okay, but here's the thing: you live in a society. And society always has someone else - person carrying a high-risk pregnancy, person going through chemotherapy, person with AIDS, elderly person whose immune system is doing devil-knows-what at this point - for whom that IS too much of a risk. You want to be the one who got them sick with the disease that killed them?
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