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[–]Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think I would separate science from medicine here as they are not always the same thing.

But medicine is a part of science.

The difference between biology and medicine is that the former is an applied science and the latter isn't.

Medicine is supposed to be based in science, but since medicine has to straddle science and social policy, it's never been immune to social pressures.

Did you know that funding is a fundamental part of science, specially in the US?

If a certain company nudges your reaseach team to manufacture certain results by threatening to cut your funding, what would you do? That's the dillema several scientists are faced with everyday.

Take, for example, the disaster of the "fat makes you fat" approach to nutrition, which we now know was hardly based in science at all and ended up just making people fatter by replacing fat with sugar.

Which was based entirety on manufactured studies by labs and research teams with ties to certain corporations.

The vision that the only things between science and it's conclusions are scientists and the evidence is very naive.