• Sagan_Wept@lemmynsfw.com
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    11 hours ago

    How can this be true? Humans have existed for almost 2 million years. A lot of those we’ve achieved only relatively recently

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      4 hours ago

      And things like kosher diets are a few thousand years old and effectively exist to reduce the odds of getting Trichinosis and are just a less effective tradition.

      The list is huge when you look at traditions and which of them actually produce a measurable benefit but it is true modern traditions tend to be more effective