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I don't understand why you would dismiss someone's vague claim of feeling better so quickly. Your day to day subjective experience matters a lot. If a lot of pe
by jm__87 8y ago
I don't understand why you would dismiss someone's vague claim of feeling better so quickly. Your day to day subjective experience matters a lot. If a lot of people can follow a particular regimen and they say it improves their subjective experience, perhaps it has some value? I don't understand why we dismiss things just because the science hasn't caught up yet.
- wilsonnb 8y agoBecause they're not using proper methodologies to validate that there has been a change. Science based on feelings is pseudoscience and should be treated as such.
- jm__87 8y agoShouldn't it depend on what your goal is? If your goal is to know exactly how something works, I agree with you. If your goal is to "feel better" along some dimension of your mental or physical health, then you don't need to know how it works, just that it works for you.
- wilsonnb 8y agoAs long as they don't recommend it to other people then I'm fine with people doing whatever they want.