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People used to say the same thing about washing hands -- "little organisms on my hand are making me sick? I don't buy it." Nowadays, the gut is sometimes refer
by johnmaguire2013 7y ago
People used to say the same thing about washing hands -- "little organisms on my hand are making me sick? I don't buy it."
Nowadays, the gut is sometimes referred to as the "second brain" because of your enteric nervous system which is located inside the gut. It probably has more influence over you than you're aware of, as it operates independently of your CNS.
- YeGoblynQueenne 7y ago>> People used to say the same thing about washing hands -- "little organisms on my hand are making me sick? I don't buy it." If you're talking about the time before there was strong evidence for pathogenic bacteria- then that would have been the only rational and justified behaviour. Why should anyone believe something that sounds implausible given current knowledge, before strong evidence is presented to support it?
- johnmaguire2013 7y agoI'm talking about when evidence was first being discovered, as is the case in this thread. Humans have a disconfirmation bias - we have a hard time accepting new, conflicting information.
- YeGoblynQueenne 7y agoYes, well, why should we accept new, conflicting information? The reasonable thing to do is to wait before you have a good enough reason to accept a new thing.