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"If it's stupid, but it works, it isn't stupid" is a maxim that only applies to luxury use cases where the results fundamentally don't matter.

As soon as the results actually matter, the maxim becomes "if it works, but it's stupid, it doesn't work".



I just got some medication yesterday where the leaflet included the following phrase: "the exact mechanism of efficacy is unknown."

So apparently the medical field is not above this logic.


That is ignorance, not stupidity. If you take compound X and see improvement in Y, that is worthwhile, even if the mechanism is a blackbox.




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