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Why do we even accept anything as true without replication by default?
by edgyquant 16d ago
Why do we even accept anything as true without replication by default?
- EA-3167 16d agoWhy do people on this site love nutrition and self-medication fads? People are surprisingly thoughtless.
- argee 16d agoOr as one might say, predictably irrational.
- vjulian 16d agoBecause “science” doesn’t know everything, and people don’t want to wait until their options are scientifically-validated. Yoga, breathing exercises, meditation and the like were once considered fads and derided by your ‘science’.
- lostlogin 16d agoHow do you decide whether something works or not?
- qsera 16d agoYou don't. It is too costly and thus risky. Instead you do a charade and convince authorities (who just want to cover their asses citing some vetted studies) and people that your stuff work. It is "ass covering" all the way. Not "does it work" all the way...
- 028363922092 16d agoAre you a vendor of orgone accumulators or a staunch believer and customer?
- lelanthran 16d ago> Yoga, breathing exercises, meditation and the like were once considered fads and derided by your ‘science’. What do you mean "once"?
- ShinyLeftPad 16d agoIn case you don't follow the field: https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/meditation-and-mindfulness-effectiveness-and-safety https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/meditation-and-mindfulness-...
- lelanthran 16d ago> Meditation and mindfulness practices may have a variety of health benefits and may help people improve the quality of their lives. Recent studies have investigated if meditation or mindfulness helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, pain, or symptoms related to withdrawal from nicotine, alcohol, or opioids. > Other studies have looked at the effects of meditation or mindfulness on weight control or sleep quality. > However, much of the research on these topics has been preliminary or not scientifically rigorous. Because the studies examined many different types of meditation and mindfulness practices, and the effects of those practices are hard to measure, results from the studies have been difficult to analyze and may have been interpreted too optimistically. This is just a polite way of saying "there's no evidence of them actually doing anything*". I mean, that's exactly what you'd tell someone who believed in the healing powers of homeopathy or chiropracty(sp?).
- ShinyLeftPad 14d agoI recommend to skip the intro and go to specific articles.
- edgyquant 15d agoThat’s different as I don’t think anyone needs science to feel the benefits of yoga or breathwork but lots of people want to enact policies based social studies that are not able to be reproduced.
- EA-3167 15d agoScientists know that they don’t know everything and act accordingly, they don’t make claims for the efficacy of the things they don’t know. People here routinely do.
- dartharva 15d ago[dead]
- andrewla 15d agoSpeak for yourself! My default position for a long time has been that all results in the social sciences are garbage. If they go against intuition or my biases, then they are most likely garbage. If they confirm my intuition or my biases, then they are definitely garbage.
- edgyquant 15d agoSure but I mean the community as a whole. Why has there been allowed to be a reproducibility problem at all? Why has the consensus not always been that without provably reproducible results it’s not to be taken seriously?