I am totally going to have to ask you some questions later about this, but no hurry. :)
In this story's universe, science does not understand the exact mechanisms by which FOY water or Unicorphexin work by any means! I mean, jeez, most of her mass goes away, and comes back later. That kind of thing drives physicists insane. When she's a pup, Kammy's cells keep dividing, but she doesn't get any bigger overall. That kind of thing drives biologists insane. They are SCRAMBLING to explain this before they have to completely throw everything they know out the window. The fun thing is that Kammy doesn't care -- she's so beyond traumatized by all of this that it's all just in a day's work, or play, or whatever.
This doesn't stop medicines from being approved by the FDA, however. They judge medicines and treatments "safe and effective," meaning "it's 99.9% likely not to kill you, and most people who use it see some improvement in some condition or other." They don't judge this by knowing how it works; they judge this by reading studies that show what happens to people who take it.
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I am totally going to have to ask you some questions later about this, but no hurry. :)
In this story's universe, science does not understand the exact mechanisms by which FOY water or Unicorphexin work by any means! I mean, jeez, most of her mass goes away, and comes back later. That kind of thing drives physicists insane. When she's a pup, Kammy's cells keep dividing, but she doesn't get any bigger overall. That kind of thing drives biologists insane. They are SCRAMBLING to explain this before they have to completely throw everything they know out the window. The fun thing is that Kammy doesn't care -- she's so beyond traumatized by all of this that it's all just in a day's work, or play, or whatever.
This doesn't stop medicines from being approved by the FDA, however. They judge medicines and treatments "safe and effective," meaning "it's 99.9% likely not to kill you, and most people who use it see some improvement in some condition or other." They don't judge this by knowing how it works; they judge this by reading studies that show what happens to people who take it.