I think we are being awfully hard on this guy just because he attempted to quantify this stuff about his life. If someone shared offhand that standing on one l

I think we are being awfully hard on this guy just because he attempted to quantify this stuff about his life. If someone shared offhand that standing on one leg helped them sleep better in a Hacker News comment, I can't imagine anyone responding that their methodology was "close to nonsense" or that their experience "proved nothing". Let's be realistic. The vast majority of evidence we use to update our beliefs is not of scientific caliber. (Just imagine how crippled a reasoner someone would be if they never changed their mind about anything unless they saw scientific evidence that indicated they should. Pivoting a startup would be very difficult, for instance.) There is a continuum of evidence quality, and we should reward, not punish, this guy for collecting higher-quality evidence even if he didn't get all the way to "scientific".