this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2023
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Do we need to know how things work, when we can objectively prove that they do work?
I mean, if you go by the observations here, then basically every treatment for every syndrome should be void. In general, something is called a "syndrome" because we don't know what is wrong, we just know that something is wrong, and we know that treating it in certain ways alleviates the symptoms.