Agreed but my only contention is in where to comfortably and responsibly draw the line between validated new and the latest research.

Most of the time when we see people following the advice of old conventional wisdom it is not because they think that the doctors and scientists were smarter 100 years ago than they are today, it’s because they assume (accurately) that if the advice is still being given today that it has stood the test of time and take that fact as validation of the advice’s accuracy.

The problem with new research and the latest cutting edge research is that while it is probably the best way to do things or to cure this anxiety or that one… no one knows for sure because it hasn’t been repeatedly tested and no one is sure of the long term consequences of this new medication or that new treatment and, additionally, no one wants to be the first person (the test subject) to find out.

I think all we need to do is put more effort into validating new ideas.