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I believe in the placebo effect and the power of suggestion (itself an empirical property of the mind).

Maybe I went a bit too far with dismissing it as nonsense pseudo-science (maybe not far enough), but I regardless have a huge amount of suspicion for it simply because there is no empirical evidence for its efficacy. It's not an "advancement" of our understanding of said mental states and the...

I do it every few weeks or so. If I do it more frequently than my gums bleed.

If we considered it necessary to be moved, it would have been moved. Do you think all topics about education should be moved to the school folders, and all discussion about drug legalisation to the health subforums? :rolleyes:

That was my point, considering that I don't like welfare in general. BUT OH NO SHE MENTIONED DRUGZ MUST DEFEND DEPLOY

Oh, he always overreacts when I say anything regarding drugs or taxes.

IDK, I sit somewhere on the fence. Regardless of the idiocy of drug use being illegal, it currently is illegal, and I'm not much of a fan of my taxes going to someone who's just going to spend it on drugs. And yes, that's more of an emotional argument than a logical one.

To be fair, to the Mayans (and to a certain extent, other Central American cultures like the Aztecs, Toltecs, Olmecs, etc) the world had ended/began again several times. The world ending was really nothing new. I wouldn't pay much attention to it.

T^2 = (4pi^2)/(GM) x a^3

Try living on the North Shore.

Germ theory is testable in laboratory conditions by exactly what you said - it makes "predictions" that are proven accurate in the lab and in real world conditions. While the last bolded bit is certainly true, both evolution and its subset (germ theory) meet the requirements of falsifiability...

Hurr. Psychiatry is medicine-based treatment of mental disorders; psychology is, well treatment of the mind. Each has its uses, but psychiatry is most certainly not pseudo-science. Given what psychology actually treats, it can be seen as far more "untestable and unfalsifiable" than psychiatry...

Lol no? It's treated with stimulants, like ritalin or dexies. Bad analogy, but in people with ADHD, stimulants and depressants sort of do the.. opposite.

NLP is a nonsense psuedo-science. Do you suggest they take some homeopathic anti-depressants as well?

MAD principle. It keeps the world in check.

Well if you do it across a large enough area, you can build up a distribution map from where you find them and where you don't.

Well, I guess it depends on the animal. For, say, small reptiles, you'd do random quadrats of an area, and produce a distribution map based on what you found in the quadrats. IDK what a "profile sketch" is.

Simple analogy: Population = basket of apples Abundance = number of apples in the basket

Because without it, you don't have the experience in the field to be taken seriously.

Yeah. In my field (biology/geoscience), get a PhD or you will be laughed at, pretty much.