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Yes, and understanding the effects of a medication is different to understanding how the medication has that effect.

The medical field as a whole isn’t generally interested in understanding how medication, only in empirical measuring and qualify the effects.

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> The medical field as a whole isn’t generally interested in understanding how medication, only in empirical measuring and qualify the effects.

I don't think this is quite correct. I mean many practitioners of medicine will have the attitude of ... "if it works, it works". And that's perfectly reasonable.

But if you understand the mechanism of action of a drug (or other treatment), it (often) makes it easier to improve a drug.

So ... some sectors of the "medical field" understandably care only about empirical results. But other sectors would prefer to understand what's going on.

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>The medical field as a whole isn’t generally interested in understanding how medication, only in empirical measuring and qualify the effects.

This is nonsense. Most, if not all professionals are interested in mechanism of action, but without Ms Frizzle, it is extremely difficult and expensive (time and money wise) to figure that out. So while the labs run the experiments with the very limited funding they have, we make do with using the second best thing we have, which are statistics.

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The tests are there to confirm with statistics that (1) it works and (2) side effects are not too bad or too frequent.

That doesn't mean we understand why the medication works.

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Yes and no: understanding means to know the relationships to the underlying system.

When you already know that system well, those effects are often just a matter of simple inference.

Just like here: most people are actually perfectly capable to foresee the detrimental effects of abandoning understanding.

Living in a fantasy world of "magic" makes you dependent upon your caretakers, who provide the ingredients.

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And this is exactly what Dario wants.
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unless its the mrna covid vaccine. which needed how many months?
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This is so tiring.
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