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If I may join in this game of hubris, I have discovered a pattern as well.

Report 1: Milk is amazing for you. Report 2: We were wrong, milk is terrible for you Report 3: Milk may have some benefits Report n: Whew, milk is good within bounds

Repeat for chocolate, microservices, meditation, religion, wine, nuclear power

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This is called the dialectic of german philosopher Hegel.

He called it: Thesis, Antitheses and Synthesis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis

counter-examples: heroin, opiates, rat poison, etc.

Also, wine. No amount of alcohol over any time period has been found to be beneficial, it was just feelgood crap wineries/breweries told us.

Alcohol can be beneficial in terms of it being a "social glue" whether you personally believe it or not. Within reason is fine, and won't make you an alcoholic. So that doesn't fit the counter examples.

Of course there's happiness benefits to it in social settings, not disputing that. Just saying that, in a vacuum, any amount of alcohol is harmful to the human body. The "1 glass of red wine per day" is BS.

Possible, but the generally held belief is that a bit of red wine is good for you

Those have all reached the good within bounds, no?

How about smoking? Report 1: Smoking is good because it makes you more masculine. Report 2: Smoking is bad because it causes lung cancer. Report N: Smoking is still bad.

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