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This is how pseudoscience takes root. You are the easiest person for you to fool.
by cbd1984 11y ago
This is how pseudoscience takes root. You are the easiest person for you to fool.
- erokar 11y agoYes, God forbid you fool yourself into feeling good and relaxed.
- eternauta3k 11y agoPlaceboing myself into emotional control and improved attention sounds like a good deal.
- DanBC 11y agobut you don't know if you're actually getting emotional control or improved attention.
- cbd1984 11y agoNo, God forbid I forgo some better therapy.
- fit2rule 11y agoIts also how science fails to take root: by discouraging people from trying things, just because it hasn't been rubber-stamped by the authorities yet ..
- nunodonato 11y agoexactly. science is sad sometimes, just like any other religion, it creates walls that some people get stuck inside of... waiting for some kind of "approval" by its priests
- cristianpascu 11y agoIt seems that you get BOTH science and religion wrong. People are free and influence each other. That's a basic assumption we should take into account when understanding social phenomena. Start of story.
- cbd1984 11y agoIf you think science is a religion, you're grossly misinformed about what science is.
- niccaluim 11y ago"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation." - William Paley
- zafka 11y agoI have always loved that quote, now I find I have been mis-attributing it for close to 30 years... For quite some time it had been attributed to Herbert Spencer
- huxley 11y agoThis is the same William Paley (1743–1805) who proposed the watchmaker analogy arguing that complexity in nature was teleological evidence of a creator or intelligent designer.
- cbd1984 11y agoThis is how science keeps people safe. Bullshit kills: http://whatstheharm.net/ http://whatstheharm.net/