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		sprt on April 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lonely individuals process the world in idiosyncra... It seems that the statement "blood flow doesn't tell you anything about neural activity" is definitely not true: https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/brain-metrics/what_does... Also, it seems dangerous to suggest rejecting studying a specific area because the scientific tools and our understanding around it are currently limited - this is what science is for after all. If we thought this way, we wouldn't have nutrition research.

fauxpause_ on April 9, 2023 [–]

Nutrition research is famously inconsistent though?

sprt on April 9, 2023 | [–]

Terribly so. So we need more high-quality research, not to stop researching it. The scientific method can only get better by putting it in practice.

fauxpause_ on April 9, 2023 | | [–]

Or we need to recognize some fundamental limits on what is measureable

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