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I don't know why, but poor quality control would be my guess. When I wrote that I was only going by the anecdotal accounts of the people I talked to, but since then a report came out which tested many popular microbe products, and AN was among the shittiest. The link is somewhere not too far...

That would seem to depend on the goal. If the goal is to survive in a world devoid of technology and collected knowledge, as the world has been for most of our existence, subjectivity would seem to have offered us some advantages. Even in the modern world, science would be severely...

The Future Simulation Postulation™ is a tempting hypothesis because it really only requires one assumption, and once you make that assumption the likelihood that we are in a simulation becomes near certain. However, that one assumption is huge. Occam's razor is not just about counting the...

I don't know how many of you want to take the time to read this, but here's an excerpt from an article written by my partner. It's an attempt to explain cancer to the layperson in a way that makes it simple without "dumbing" it down. IOW, she intended to acknowledge that the average reader is...

"It worked for me!' is not a valid criteria for judging any medical intervention. People say that rubbing a toad on a wart made it go away. People say that drinking lemon juice cured their diabetes. There is no treatment, no matter how silly or implausible, for which we cannot find someone...

I've heard a couple of good podcasts on mindfulness lately from a scientific perspective. You might enjoy them. https://youarenotsosmart.com/2015/10/23/yanss-061-how-to-willfully-alter-your-brains-ability-to-willfully-alter-your-brains-abilities/...

Nope, not an expert at all. Just someone who has been studying skepticism and critical thinking for a few decades now, and who has access to people with advanced degrees. My partner has a MSc in cognitive anthropology from Oxford. So she aims not only to understand how human cognition works...

"Answer by David Chan, MD from UCLA, Stanford oncology fellowship: I believe in treating cancer with anything that works. Show me that something works, and I'll use it. Period. But don't give me a story of how someone's aunt's best friend was told that she had six months to live and was cured...

Whether I missed your point or not, the point I was making is that there is nothing negative or hateful about being skeptical. It's totally legit to point out that there is a difference between something claiming to be scientific and something actually being scientific. And, you don't have to...

There is nothing negative about asking honest questions, and asking questions does indeed indicate an open mind. Having an open mind doesn't mean we have to be convinced, it just means we have to be willing to be convinced. I understand you don't have the answers, and that's fine, but...

No doubt that the ego has a lot of baggage that comes along with it, but packed somewhere in that baggage are some very useful items we need to make the trip. It can be hard to talk about these subjects because they are so ephemeral, so if defining ego the way you do helps you to communicate...

The ego is the glue that holds together our psyche. While is can be beneficial to sometimes detach ourselves, it's probably good that this is extremely hard to do and only temporary. And ego is not necessarily correlated with anger or selfishness. Someone like The Dalai Lama has a very strong...

Being mean is cheap and easy. It doesn't require much mental resources, and often feels cathartic. Actually making the effort to put yourself into someone else's shoes is a high-energy task. It takes willpower and self-control because you are resisting tribalism. Tribalism exists deep down in...

Sometimes, probably. The faults we find in others are often things we do not like about ourselves. However, human emotions are too complex and nuanced to think that all anger is redirected self-hate. Often, we tend to excuse our own undesirable behaviors as being a result of external factors...

Send the bottle out to sea Signed solitude and misery

In a random universe coincidence is expected. The remarkable thing would be if we never encountered strange coincidences, because then we would have reason to suspect a non-random universe. But yes, I agree, very creepy. One good thing about being a human is that we can experience these...

Electricity. ;) not kidding. https://www.kinkly.com/2/1367/passion-play/sex-toys/electrify-your-orgasms-tens-units-for-beginners

The human psyche has developed to want consonance and feels very uncomfortable with dissonance. As such, the brain is motivated to reduce the feeling of dissonance similar to the way it is motivated to reduce hunger. When our view of ourselves or our view of the world contrasts with something...

Awaken ye fallen thread, and rise to take your morning dew.