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No. See the enormous volume and consistency of anecdotal evidence for ineffective medicine. Most of China has believed and recreated the same false anecdotes ab
by lopmotr 7y ago
No. See the enormous volume and consistency of anecdotal evidence for ineffective medicine. Most of China has believed and recreated the same false anecdotes about their TCM for thousands of years! Remember bloodletting? astrology? praying to God? If you don't apply methods for protecting yourself from human bias, then you're bound to fall victim to human bias.
- leto_ii 7y agoOk, so what standard of evidence for anthropogenic climate change would you accept?
- lopmotr 7y agoI don't know, but I would reject all anecdotes. If somebody measured the temperatures around the world for many decades, I could accept that shows global temperature rise. Turns out they did and I do. That's data, not anecdotes. As for proving the cause, I don't know enough to understand how reliable that is. But climate scientists seem pretty sure of themselves so I accept their conclusions as much as any well studied science conclusions.