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Well it's essentially eat right, drink water, get some rest, etc. Not the mumbo jumbo you see in Hollywood movie. I can't think of any scientific experiment th
by sametmax 9y ago
Well it's essentially eat right, drink water, get some rest, etc. Not the mumbo jumbo you see in Hollywood movie.
I can't think of any scientific experiment that would conclude: burn out, eat junk and drink mostly beer.
- booleandilemma 9y agoWell it's essentially eat right, drink water, get some rest, etc. This is just healthy living. I don’t think we should ascribe it to Traditional Chinese Medicine.
- sametmax 9y agoYou'd be surprise how much common sense people pay to hear in some different form and name. Yin/yang, ayurveda, etc. We love creating symbolism for things grandma said to their children for 1000 years. Beside, most reason to go to the doctor go away if you have a healthy life style.
- logfromblammo 9y agoEverything developed before science is suspected to be bunk. Everything developed after science is suspected to be bunk until the experiment has been replicated.
- sametmax 9y agoI think nobody suspected getting enough sleep was bunk before we did a study on 1000 people.
- logfromblammo 9y ago1000 years of grandmas passing down oral history is a great source of experiment ideas, but the one about only hiring/funding people that can publish a positive result in a high-impact journal needs to get tested ASAP. Getting rid of the useless cruft lingering around from the past is just as useful as advancing the frontiers of knowledge. When people can stop waving crystals around and dipping their fingers in oil, they can finally get better results from pushing the big green button on an inscrutably opaque black box that goes "ding".~
- sametmax 9y agoYes but that's not incompatible. Life is not an all of nothing proposal.
- tialaramex 9y agoInsistence that we should ignore the "mumbo jumbo" feels like a No True Scottsman to me. It's not as if this isn't a real thing, there's a specialist pharmacy near me selling exactly this type of snake oil to a local Chinese community, much as there's a local Polish shop selling a remarkable variety of different sausages. Except I bet the sausages actually work.