Re:I was an astrologer
by BurningFrog on Thursday November 07, 2019 @11:55AM
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Read what you're responding to carefully:
> so long as it is helping, it isn't necessarily bad
So it's about what you should think about this activity, IF it is actually helping.
OP thinks it should be avoided even if it's helping.
I'm arguing for the opposite.
You're arguing about something different: Does it actually work? This is an entirely separate question that I don't have much of an opinion on.
I would take issue with your (seeming) claim that you need a multi million dollar lab that does full scale double blind tests of every claim to have a scientific outlook.
That's an unfortunate "all or nothing" world view. Most of the great science in history was done without that, and a rational person can make empirical observation in everyday life without such a huge apparatus, and gain a lot from it.
> so long as it is helping, it isn't necessarily bad
So it's about what you should think about this activity, IF it is actually helping.
OP thinks it should be avoided even if it's helping.
I'm arguing for the opposite.
You're arguing about something different: Does it actually work? This is an entirely separate question that I don't have much of an opinion on.
I would take issue with your (seeming) claim that you need a multi million dollar lab that does full scale double blind tests of every claim to have a scientific outlook.
That's an unfortunate "all or nothing" world view. Most of the great science in history was done without that, and a rational person can make empirical observation in everyday life without such a huge apparatus, and gain a lot from it.