I mean it’s human biology we’re dealing with. Most medicine is “we think is the best approach” with varying levels of data from “best guess” to “a few anecdotes” to “suggestive data” to “robust, well designed clinical trials”.
If we only ever treated people with data from the last bucket most of the time your doctor would recommend “just wait and hope it gets better”
I mean it’s human biology we’re dealing with. Most medicine is “we think is the best approach” with varying levels of data from “best guess” to “a few anecdotes” to “suggestive data” to “robust, well designed clinical trials”.
If we only ever treated people with data from the last bucket most of the time your doctor would recommend “just wait and hope it gets better”