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>It is all worth questioning

Only if you are happy to spend your life never doing anything but questioning what's already there

The corpus of knowledge of any one field takes more than a lifetime to properly validate by yourself, and lots of them cannot be validated at all because you don't have infinite funds

Alas mankind dropped the ball in regards to dealing with anti-senescence, so picking your battles should be self-evident

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What you focus your research on is always a big personal gamble. Be it questioning something that seems evident or walking along beaten paths that still might turn out to be wrong. But as long as you stick to the scientific method you will at least generate a result so that future researchers wont waste their time on the same approach.

In the end evidence hopefully prevails on the societal level. It might just take some time.

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