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I did a pretty deep dive on that question and what I found was they just blamed everything kings ate. Because back in the day pretty much only royalty got gout.

Jared Leto needed to gain a bunch of weight for a role so he gorged himself on carbs and got gout. When he cut out the carbs the gout went away.

I joke but the issue with modern medicine is that the massive groundbreaking humane advancements (antibiotics, safe general anesthesia making all types of surgery possible, MRI/CT/angiography revolutionizing radiology, typed and crossmatched blood transfusions) are always overshadowed by infinite quackery

Great roundup of medical advancements.

> overshadowed by infinite quackery

With the exception of computer science, all science is like this.

You've got people like Robert Maxwell intentionally trying to make things worse - but then you also have these supposed "scientists" who are total princesses and throw a bitch fit if someone finds an experiment that doesn't fit their grand theory. And then the universities and research centers do not fund great scientists, they fund great politicians who theater play as scientists.

The only reason I think CS manages to not get drowned in bullshit is because it's code, and when you send someone your code, they run it, and if it doesn't work, everybody knows instantly.
Yes, and there's a "reproducibility crisis" these days (lots of papers are basically made up)...

But there's another side of it which is "debunkers", and you're never gonna get a positive result out of one of these people because they're never gonna try to do the experiment right.

> Can not reproduce
> Okay buddy, tell it to your wife

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