[coldtea]

Science begins from experience, and develops from there.

It's not like religion, which starts from holy scriptures.

Though many think science should just be something we take in as a holy scripture, unconnected to our personal experience, and even when it doesn't match it.

[addicted]

You seem to believe that one can only rigidly do “science” or “religion”.

Much of what people are suggesting in these comments are not just “personal anecdotes”. They’ve proven to be wrong for most people. They’re outright dangerous.

For example, the comment about just taping your mouth shut is awful without even doing anything for the vast majority of people with sleep apnea.

[coldtea]

>You seem to believe that one can only rigidly do “science” or “religion”.

No, in fact I wrote explicly the opposite about science: that it starts with experience, and should not be about accepting some rigid dogma.

And I wrote that it's bad that "many think" that science is something we should "take in as a holy scripture".

>For example, the comment about just taping your mouth shut is awful without even doing anything for the vast majority of people with sleep apnea.

That manages to be both wrong and unscientific.

- It's not true it's not "doing anything for the vast majority of people with sleep apnea"

- Mouth taping has been shown to be efficient in preliminary research (not to mention in many people's personal results).

- "Awful" is just a sentimental meaningless term standing for "I dislike it" in this context

- Saying it does not do "anything for the vast majority of people with sleep apnea" is just some personal opinion, since you haven't measured anything or pointed to any research. So the very thing you claim to condemn, pulling stuff out of one's ass.