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When you try it for yourself, you realize that it's not.
by davebryand 8y ago
When you try it for yourself, you realize that it's not.
- fromthestart 8y agoThat's exactly the mentality that keeps wives' tales circulating. How often do home remedies "work" because of placebo and/or simply time?
- davebryand 8y agoOk, don't try it. :) Wive's tales and home remedies still circulate because they often work. Of course, you're not going to read that on Hacker News because it's biased by people wearing modern American blinders that don't have the humility, courage, awareness or something else, to just try for themselves. I was that way until I tried psychedelics, meditation, pranayama breathing, lucid dreaming and many other alternative modalities just two years ago. All love--good luck on your journey!
- fromthestart 8y ago>American blinders that don't have the humility, courage, awareness No, it's about having some degree of scientific rigor, as opposed to blind anecdote.
- davebryand 8y agoScientific rigor is not just about gathering people as lab subjects, experimenting on them and publishing your findings in peer reviewed journals. In my experience, the strongest science, where the deepest knowledge arises, is by systematically performing experiments on yourself. This isn't possible for all things, but it's 100% available for fasting. Thanks for the conversation, best to you.