Thanks for your comment — glad you mention the scientific method. It’s a tremendously useful tool that, indeed, up to this day, very few people apply.

I plan writing an article in the blog about the scientific method and how we can apply it in our everyday lives.

Asking these questions, especially looking for counterexamples, saves me SO much time. The ability to quickly evaluate the ideas of others is so useful, especially in areas where science can be iffy.

Very quickly things come into focus:

Religion: all description, no prediction, unfalsifiable.
College Literature courses: pretty much the same as religion.
Psychiatry: Very little data on the human brain to work with so science is pretty weak. Almost impossible to make replicable measurements (This is why you can go to several shrinks and get different diagnosis from each). DSM manual is all description and very little prediction.

And don’t get me started with
Kids Karate Classes, Aikido, Oprah, Political Systems, Yoga, and Singing lessons.
I cannot believe the number of people who take singing lessons without testing the assumption that the teacher can, in fact sing. Would you take chess lessons from someone who had never completed a game? Crazy.

Of course, if other folks fail to read the previous posts like I do, then this point is mute, but, What the hell.

Thanks for this incredibly interesting post. I eat this stuff up! And I’m always hungry, so I’ll be back

Thanks