Scared Sober?

We don't have too many hobby horses here at Microkhan, but one of them is a steadfast belief that many long-accepted practices are far less effective than advertised. This is typically because our species is easily seduced by logical facades, and thus pays too little attention to actual evidence. You can understand, then, why the medical establishment spent centuries swearing by bloodletting—it makes intuitive sense that "bad blood" would equate with ill health. It wasn't until we sat down and r