You're making valid points: Not everything that is not backed up by scientific studies is useless or harmful. Also, for innovation to happen, we need to try things, because new approaches are just not necessarily backed by scientific evidence.
Yet, it is important to also not trust what is *not* backed by evidence. Lobotomy was a thing. And believing that people with mental instability were possessed by ghosts, and so on.
Some useful handles are: has it worked for the past centuries and stood the test of time? Is it an area where intuition can easily be deployed? Can the underlying mechanisms be explained by some well established science? What are the risks when... (read more)
You're making valid points: Not everything that is not backed up by scientific studies is useless or harmful. Also, for innovation to happen, we need to try things, because new approaches are just not necessarily backed by scientific evidence.
Yet, it is important to also not trust what is *not* backed by evidence. Lobotomy was a thing. And believing that people with mental instability were possessed by ghosts, and so on.
Some useful handles are: has it worked for the past centuries and stood the test of time? Is it an area where intuition can easily be deployed? Can the underlying mechanisms be explained by some well established science? What are the risks when... (read more)