#naturalisticfallacy — Public Fediverse posts

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| Science-Based Medicine #NaturalisticFallacy https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-do-mrna-vaccines-synthroid-and-pharmaceuticals-have-in-common-according-to-maha/ “This view is not based on science, but rather an ideology in which the “natural” form of whatever remedy or preventative being considered is deemed superior regardless of whether it actually is and ignoring the reasons that science moved from the “natural” form to the more purified, targeted, or—dare I say?—reductionistic form. (2/4)

There's apparently a trendy movement promoting the consumption of #rawMilk based on the false notion that #unpasteurized #milk is somehow healthier (#naturalisticFallacy).

Raw milk is not healthier than #pasteurized milk, and it can cause issues like #nausea, #diarrhea, #vomiting or, in some cases, #seriousIllness. Don't subject yourself and your family to unnecessary danger for the sake of adhering to a misguided and misinformed trend.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/the-dangers-of-raw-milk-what-you-should-know

#Tradition and the #LindyEffect are descriptive, not prescriptive, observations.

Things stick around for lots of reasons, good and bad — including, but not limited to: coercion, fear, inertia, ossification, taboo, chance, network effects, market failures, sunk costs…

Lots of wrong ideas, unhealthy habits and abhorrent behaviours are “old”.

Old ≠ good.

(#NaturalisticFallacy, you’re next)

Biological determinism is a common #fallacy that implies that biology does and should completely dictate human behavior or the behavior of a certain subset of humans, such as Black people or males. A frequent formulation is along the lines of, "Humans evolved to do this; it's natural." It is considered to be a form of pseudoscience or folk science.

It is a fork of both the naturalistic fallacy (it is true that humans have biological differences, therefore there ought to be a difference in outcome) and the appeal to nature (it's natural for us to behave like this, so it's desirable to behave like this) when used as a normative. When used as a positive it is just factually wrong.

#RationalWIki #biologicaldeterminism #appealtonature #naturalisticfallacy
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Biological_determinism