FWIW (and this is where I think philosophy can help with medicine), I believe evolutionary teleology, like most forms of teleology, often gets in the way of good science. Though useful as a hypothesis generating heuristic, it easily becomes a just-so story for pet theories. 1/2
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I think you'd agree that it's basically a historical law: Whatever the popular weight loss diet of the day happens to be, it gets claimed as a panacea. A couple decades ago it was a vegan diet.
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I'm willing to believe that a vegan diet does good things for T2 diabetes, etc.! But I just get suspicious. That's all.
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