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JimTheMantoday at 1:09 AM2 repliesview on HN

There's something to be said about HN, the supposed rationality and intelligence of the forum, and the massive blind spot posters have about anything medical or otherwise biological.

There is no scientific consensus on it!

Although I doubt there's any harm in eating more fruit.


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XenophileJKOtoday at 1:32 AM

There is some actual science here, just the studies aren't great. I have floaters and stumbled on research out of Taiwan related to this. Mostly out of Tiawan. There is some possible confirmation from Italy, but the study was a cocktail treatment, so you can't isolate the bromelain effects.

What I haven't seen is any properly controlled study proving it false. Just a cluster of researchers in Tiawan with flawed study construction.

SubiculumCodetoday at 1:53 AM

One can always get the surgery, where they vacuum them out..doesn't seem worth the risk to me, even if they annoy me.