Timeline for Advisor getting involved in semi-pseudoscience
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Jan 18, 2023 at 22:56 | comment | added | lalaalal | Your answer and the comments made me realize that I've seen lots of research that oversells itself or its applications. It's just that my research (and thus the papers I mostly read) is not connected to health, at least not in a curative way, so the stakes never seemed so high. I realize now that it must be pretty common for bad health advice to be given out based on speculative papers if at all possible. | |
Jan 18, 2023 at 22:49 | comment | added | lalaalal | Thank you for the answer. We did end up talking about it a little bit. It sounds like he is sufficiently skeptical. He seems to think there is something interesting scientifically in the topic without necessarily buying into the connected miracle cure claims or whatever. | |
Jan 18, 2023 at 22:37 | vote | accept | lalaalal | ||
Jan 11, 2023 at 3:15 | comment | added | user21820 | @BobaFit: There's also the nocebo effect, in case anyone is interested. Both placebo and nocebo can have significant genuine physiological effects. It's underestimated by many scientists, but of course they can't do anything beyond what the body can do to itself (e.g. neither of them can cure or cause cancer). | |
Jan 10, 2023 at 16:25 | history | edited | Matt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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Jan 9, 2023 at 13:18 | comment | added | Boba Fit | Already gave you thumbs up. You could make it even better by mentioning that some "traditional medicine" has something behind it since it has effects. It may be over-reported results in some cases. It may be placebo in some cases. And it may be very different from what the traditional folks claim. But there are lots of things discovered when these things are investigated. Even if just alternate sources of existing things. I recall an anecdote about a plant that produced sap with 20% caffeine. Locals were in the habit of chewing the twigs for the rush. | |
Jan 9, 2023 at 6:15 | comment | added | EarlGrey | "I figured that I could do some really careful experiments" and "In fact, I was most interested in the control conditions," Fantastic. If more people would do science based on these premises, and not on "I know what is science" or "my idea will solve the long-standing issue" or even "I know what is right, I just need the data" we would be centuries ahead wrt to where we are now ... | |
Jan 9, 2023 at 3:14 | history | answered | Matt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |