• P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    They could be ready by 2030.

    Statements like this make me question why I even bother to subscribe to this forum.

    Every post here is fully of pop pseudo-science, double-digit sample sizes, correlation/causation fallacies, fact-destroying science news cycles, double-digit sample sizes, confirmation biases, conflicts of interests, fucking double-digit sample sizes, and every other fallacy, bias, and problem you could think of. Where’s the real science with actual provable conclusions, perfectly peer-reviewed, and has an appropriately large sample size?!

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      Sounds like something to take up with the mods of the community, and should they disagree, a new community made.

      I completely agree with you, it gets old seeing pop science. Should really be a rule that bans these types of posts.

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        Well that is a great example

        The. BBC headline: CURED! CURED, I TELL YA!

        Meanwhile in the article: its progression hasbeen slowed by 75%

        Yeah, that is awesome still, but that is not cured. This sort of clickbait headlines are a prime example of the problem in /science and in science in general.

        Everything needs to be a success, a revolution, something Mike dropping. Nobody wants gradual improvement anymore

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    When do we get teeth that aren’t made of a substance that our food literally dissolves? Seems like a major design flaw.

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        The quality of the food only matters because our bodies can’t handle it. If we could improve our teeth (and other body parts) to be more resilient and adapted to available food resources then it wouldn’t be considered poor quality anymore.

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          The foods that damage our teeth the most are things that are really sugary and/or highly acidic. Things like sodas, sweets, alcohols, for a few examples. We already consider stuff like that unhealthy without considering what they do to our teeth. And unless you’re consuming stuff like that excessively, they’re not likely to cause you too many problems as long as you’re practicing good dental hygiene.

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      It’s not really the food dissolving the teeth.

      Bactria feed food remnants and product bacteria, mostly sugars, and product acid that dissolves tooth enamel.

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        Acidic food can dissolve your teeth. I’m aware of the involvement of bacteria but I didn’t want to go into too much detail for this one-liner. The point is our teeth are very poorly designed to stay intact in the face of the dietary environment they are used for.

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          Sure, if you eat a lot of it and have poor dental hygiene. But you have to eat a lot of it. Like the only stories of it being a problem are like one person who would constantly drink lemon water. It’s not particularly acidic, but the constant exposure made it a problem. Most people aren’t anywhere near that level.

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            Well, I had this issue from drinking too much orange juice. I did drink it often but not an extreme amount I’d say. But even lower levels of acidity can cause your teeth to weaken over time.