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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.

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There's a little book called Quantised Accelerations, and in it the author proposes a new - fairly rough - theory about what might be causing inertial force.

But the majority of this little book is just one experiment after another that have been done before, have been reproduced, and yet cannot be explained by mainstream physics.

Now this is fine, it's okay have unknowns, but the fact that these things are NOT taught in school, and the physics community has decided to kind of pretend they don't exist, makes it impossible to take anyone in academia the slightest bit seriously.

And this is physics, supposedly the MOST serious branch of academia - and even they are acting like they can make facts go away by pretending they don't exist.

If I was king, I'd send a copy of this book to the dean of every university - along with the letter saying they're being defunded, effective immediately.