> If you would like to inform me of why it's complete bullshit, I would love to hear. Your comment as it stands adds no value which I think is the reason why you were downvoted (I didn't personally) -- not because people "take sides" with the article.
My problem with this is I would be on HN, Reddit and other places all day. With every extraordinary claim someone makes it can take actual science a few minutes to explain (this is why extraordinary claims should always come with extraordinary evidence otherwise you're just wasting everyone's time like this article). Pseudo science is incredibly easy to generate; you just find something that makes easy correlations (regardless of their validity) and fits within a narrative people love and you're done. Science then has to go through each item and explain why each one is wrong.
I shouldn't have to go through articles like this and look up and source each piece that's incorrect; if readers simply apply some critical thinking and do a little investigation on their own (and, hey, actually READ a REAL study once in a while so you can see what a good study and a bad study looks like) they can see right through it.
I don't have much experience with HN and pseudo science articles; because this crowd is usually really smart I kinda assumed it would have been really easy to tell this was bullshit.
My problem with this is I would be on HN, Reddit and other places all day. With every extraordinary claim someone makes it can take actual science a few minutes to explain (this is why extraordinary claims should always come with extraordinary evidence otherwise you're just wasting everyone's time like this article). Pseudo science is incredibly easy to generate; you just find something that makes easy correlations (regardless of their validity) and fits within a narrative people love and you're done. Science then has to go through each item and explain why each one is wrong.
I shouldn't have to go through articles like this and look up and source each piece that's incorrect; if readers simply apply some critical thinking and do a little investigation on their own (and, hey, actually READ a REAL study once in a while so you can see what a good study and a bad study looks like) they can see right through it.
I don't have much experience with HN and pseudo science articles; because this crowd is usually really smart I kinda assumed it would have been really easy to tell this was bullshit.