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Your reply perfectly sums up why anti-gluten and other food crazes periodically sweep through our culture: science's job isn't to support peoples self-observati
by zwieback 14y ago
Your reply perfectly sums up why anti-gluten and other food crazes periodically sweep through our culture: science's job isn't to support peoples self-observation and that observation does not prove gluten intolerance.
The gluten-free + gluten/placebo experiment could show whether someone is gluten intolerant or not, until then the approach you mention is indistinguishable from superstition.
- Shorel 14y agoNow this is a good reason to prove if farts can be created by placebo effects and superstition.
- jellicle 14y agoFor an individual, it doesn't matter whether the effect is placebo or not; it's real to the individual. If standing on tiptoes and spinning around three times each morning makes you feel better, you should do it. It's only for determining what sorts of interventions we should use for a larger population that we care about whether the effect is placebo or not.
- dbrian 14y agoSure, but when you make personal choices for your own diet you should absolutely base it on your own observations.
- mipapage 14y agoThis has nothing to do with fads or crazes, at least for me and many other's that I know. It is important to apply critical thinking in all aspects of what you do.