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		DuskStar on Sept 29, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and bloc... "no reason to do X" means to me that it doesn't work, not "it's unproven that it works" or "there's a 10 percent chance of works".

tootie on Sept 30, 2021 [–]

There's 1000 things you're not doing for your health right now because we don't have reason to believe they'll help. Maybe scientists will prove acupuncture cures cancer fifty years from now but anyone who advised against it right now will not become liars.

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