mfb comments on Overconfident Pessimism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mfb 24 November 2012 07:45:01PM 0 points [-]

I don't think this will die soon, similar to many other obscure types of "medicine". Proper medical treatments can fail, and in that case many are looking for alternatives. Add some "$person was treated with §method and $symptom went away!"-"confirmations", and you have a market for that.

Comment author: CCC 26 November 2012 08:15:41AM 4 points [-]

If a person (a) is poorly, (b) receives treatment intended to make him better, and (c) gets better, then no power of reasoning known to medical science can convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health.

-- Sir Peter Medawar, "The Art of the Soluble"

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