I argue that medicine still does not have enough accumulated knowledge about the complexity of the human body to be playing God with a single pill.

You may begin your argument now

There is no god. So I argue that medicine is at least just as potent as nothing.

Maybe ... maybe not.

Modern medicine does have magic pills for many illnesses; for example, antibiotics are magical for many bacterial infections, many vaccines are almost magical too.

OTOH, many pills will have undesired side-effects, and the body is in a complex dynamic equilibrium, so it may happen that blocking GLP-1 may have side effects.

Eventually, we'll all die, but I'm optimistic that GLP-1 will lead to a better equilibrium. Preliminary evidence says it will. I'm not as confident as the author though :)

You're right, but the way you're going about it isn't.

Any single pill? Or is your objection specific to this one? (That iirc is actually an injection, not a pill, but w/e)

You don’t believe the medicine that billions of people take to treat diseases that would’ve otherwise demonstrably killed them is “accumulated knowledge” enough? From insulin to antibiotics, we have sufficient evidence that many types of medicine DO work. Nobody is “playing god” (whatever that means), it’s just reproducible and consistent data

Patented medicines aren't medicine, they're poisons.

Always have been. Always will be.

You can achieve better effects than this poison simply by eating closer to how humans ate in the 1800's.

[0] https://breckyunits.com/patentsArePoison.html

Try telling a type 1 diabetic patient to eat like it's the 1800s

> a type 1 diabetic patient

Are you sure there is such a thing?

Yes.

And what biological test can one conduct that proves this, and is unchangeable over time?