Agreed. I think blanket statements like "medical science has established that it...

csdrane on Oct 14, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Me and my 'useless' gall bladder

Agreed. I think blanket statements like "medical science has established that it is an almost completely useless organ [1]" need to caveat this with "medical science as it currently stands today".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8454918

imgabe on Oct 14, 2014 [–]

I think we can safely infer that we are not referring to medical science from the future.