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[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Hooray for censorship! Censors always say it's for your own good.

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It's not something that I'm thrilled about, and I'm sure that the censorship is less due to the fact that he's making any sort of incredible discoveries on his own-- and more likely that he's a threat towards the potential money machine offered by big medicine and big pharma. That's the case with really any form of alternative medicine, or focus on supplementation/herbalism. Studies are sort of smothered away into darker corners, and far less research is put into it to make it seem like it's less trustworthy.

Granting access to more complicated levels of experimentation to your average Joe is pretty dangerous though. To be fair, Leeuwenhoek gifted the world with his own curiosity that led to a ton of discoveries within the scientific/medical communities, and the fucker was just a merchant that was curious. I don't know. I've got very mixed feelings about the whole thing.