Nassim N. Taleb: Everything these idiots, frauds, and assholes don't understand
Decoding the Gurus
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Traditional Therapies Aren't the Answer to the Problem of Bleeding People
There is a danger of simply regarding those as follies that we can do well without, tha we've surpassed the need for any traditional system. But i would say that's a pretty extreme view. Most people do realize that traditions have elements of functional importance to societies. There there are clear cases where traditional knowledge is not necessarily beneficial to the people receiving it or even the societies that preserve them. So like you say, we do have to come down to assessing things in individual cases and not just relying on the uristic that something old is good or something evolved is necessarily beneficial.
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