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Re:Federal health expert drop flossing from health guidelines by tomaskafka on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @10:43AM (#12218236)
Your argument is a slippery slope to discarding intuition :).
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Re:Federal health expert drop flossing from health guidelines by CoryG89 on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @11:15AM (#12218534)
I don't think it's much of a slippery slope. I think most of us would (or at least should) agree, up front, that intuition isn't worth much. Even when investigating topics that are considered obvious.

"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."

--Socrates

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Re:Federal health expert drop flossing from health guidelines by saiya-jin on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @11:20AM (#12218575)
intuition can be easily swayed by emotions... harder to do with facts
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