While trying to use empirical evidence to evaluate theories is an important way to advance knowledge in a given domain, I worry about how much weight is given to early empirical results found in fields that study chaotic systems. Case in point, look at the past 100 years of study in nutrition science. An entire generation was taught that fats are bad, food policy was designed around this premise, and now we are learning this may not have necessarily been the case. I don&#x27;t have a solution to this, because studying empirical evidence allows us to identify what variables are missing, expand our scope of study, and evaluate what variables are&#x2F;aren&#x27;t relevant. However, designing policies based on empirical evidence from a field that is in its infancy when it comes to data collection is dangerous.