The a large problem that scientific data has is that we aren’t able to track data consistently for a lot of people all across the world in a sound way for comparison, correlation, and statistic relevance. This is incredibly complicated to do but we shouldn’t overlook what we can do. We can track individual data in case base studies and those can still provide massive amounts of data and value that we wouldn’t have otherwise. Take for example, the case where an extremely overweight man went a year without eating. Previously it was thought that this would would be extremely detrimental to someone however when tried and given only electrolyte substance with volunteered monitoring that he offered for free; we were clearly able to witness that this wasn’t (or not identifiably) detrimental and entirely damaging to an individual. I’ll still probably not recommend it but it’s clearly shocking in it’s lack of adverse effects. It does demonstrate effectively and show that the body can operate without the consumption of food. Now one might say this information isn’t valuable because it doesn’t actually tell us how things work. I disagree and say the this information shows us that something is possible and there are key things we need to understand. Things that we can relate into more meaningful every day experiences for ourselves. Doing this opens the door for us to investigate and really make discovery happen. All too often it’s easy for us to write off someone’s thoughts and ideas and hypotheses because we just don’t think things are possible or we have preconceived notion’s of how they will work and we aren’t willing to consider other’s ideas. Case studies with good data can break those preconceptions and server to form the basis and gateways for the expensive hard won scientific studies that humanity desperately needs.
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