[cbd1984]

This is how pseudoscience takes root. You are the easiest person for you to fool.

[erokar]

Yes, God forbid you fool yourself into feeling good and relaxed.

[cbd1984]

No, God forbid I forgo some better therapy.

[eternauta3k]

Placeboing myself into emotional control and improved attention sounds like a good deal.

[DanBC]

but you don't know if you're actually getting emotional control or improved attention.

[fit2rule]

Its also how science fails to take root: by discouraging people from trying things, just because it hasn't been rubber-stamped by the authorities yet ..

[niccaluim]

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation." - William Paley

[huxley]

This is the same William Paley (1743–1805) who proposed the watchmaker analogy arguing that complexity in nature was teleological evidence of a creator or intelligent designer.

[zafka]

I have always loved that quote, now I find I have been mis-attributing it for close to 30 years... For quite some time it had been attributed to Herbert Spencer

[nunodonato]

exactly. science is sad sometimes, just like any other religion, it creates walls that some people get stuck inside of... waiting for some kind of "approval" by its priests

[cbd1984]

If you think science is a religion, you're grossly misinformed about what science is.

[cristianpascu]

It seems that you get BOTH science and religion wrong. People are free and influence each other. That's a basic assumption we should take into account when understanding social phenomena. Start of story.

[cbd1984]

This is how science keeps people safe. Bullshit kills:

http://whatstheharm.net/