MBlume comments on How to tell apart science from pseudo-science in a field you don't know ? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MBlume 12 September 2012 03:02:11PM 4 points [-]

Watch out for sensory issues. If the kid reacts to, I dunno, styrofoam like it's full of shards of broken glass and he can't bear to touch it, keep him away from styrofoam

Central case of torture: thumb screws or the rack

Obviously within spitting distance of the central case: Forcing someone to press their hand down on broken glass

Still pretty obviously in the neighborhood: Forcing someone who reacts to styrofoam like it's broken glass to touch styrofoam.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 13 September 2012 02:53:03AM 1 point [-]

Forcing someone who reacts to styrofoam like it's broken glass to touch styrofoam.

By "react" do you mean that it feels to them like broken glass would, or simply that he reacts that way?

Comment author: MBlume 13 September 2012 07:17:42AM 0 points [-]

I don't think either of us is going to say anything the other finds interesting at this point.