A Beauty Treatment Promised to Zap Fat. For Some, It Brought Disfigurement

This is the sort of technology that I'd never use in its early stages because it just doesn't pass the "grandma" test for me.

As in, I don't care WHAT medical expertise and studies and whatever you could possibly throw at me; I can imagine grandma being like "nope, that don't seem right," and THAT being overwhelmingly wiser than anything else.

(This is something like a reverse Chestersons fence?)

What’s reversed about it? I guess the fact that it is a reason to not introduce a new thing rather than a reason to not-get-rid-of a long-kept thing?

Something like that, yes.

Article gift link (if you cannot get past the paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/health/coolsculpting-side...

Haven't passed the paywall, but "A Beauty Treatment" is "CoolSculpting," a brand-name cryotherapy.

And the disfigurement:

> But for some people, the procedure results in severe disfigurement. The fat can grow, harden and lodge in the body, sometimes even taking on the shape of the device’s applicator. This side effect, called paradoxical adipose hyperplasia, usually requires surgery to correct.