The ‘Real You’ Is a Myth

Re:The ‘Real You’ Is a Myth by rusk on Thursday September 27, 2018 @10:56AM (#18085100)

We're discussing the experience of educated, and critical truthful observers, vs sensationalistic scientism and you throw up alien abductions, life-after-death experience and something about germ theory. I don't know which people you're talking about but it's been known for time immemorial among many cultures that cleanliness is a good way to avoid disease. You are cherry-picking narratives to suite your rhetoric.

We need to be beyond a level of discourse where "because science" or "a study said" is considered a fait acompli. Science often contradicts herself and studies are often debunked.

Just because "some guy wrote it", doesn't make it so.

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Re:The ‘Real You’ Is a Myth by emodendroket on Thursday September 27, 2018 @11:00AM (#18085139)

> We need to be beyond a level of discourse where "because science" or "a study said" is considered a fait acompli. Science often contradicts herself and studies are often debunked.

I don't disagree. But I don't think personal anecdote is a sufficient answer. You could criticize the quality of the research (in more specific terms than "pop-sci") or present contradictory evidence and I'd have no problem with it. Simply attacking a guy in a casual discussion that is not particularly rigorous for posting a citation you deem insufficiently rigorous without further explanation I do not think is fair.

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Re:The ‘Real You’ Is a Myth by rusk on Thursday September 27, 2018 @11:20AM (#18085321)

Huh?

Initially, I merely proposed that in the modern world we need to be more rigorous in our evaluation of scientific propositions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18083635

That's where you joined in.

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Re:The ‘Real You’ Is a Myth by emodendroket on Thursday September 27, 2018 @02:15PM (#18087214)

I had wrongly attributed the DanBC comment to you. Sorry.

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