Comment on What do mean things so small we can't see them with the human eye? Are you crazy?

cameron_vale@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Semmelweis’s hypothesis is testable. None of what you mentioned is.

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  • cameron_vale@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have you tried conducting the relevant experiments? That’s how we test such things.

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    • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Give us your experimental designs to verify or falsify all the things you listed:

      Afterlife

      Reincarnation

      A creator of the universe

      Little people

      Spirits

      I personally believe none of it but show me how it can be proven using the scientific method.

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      • cameron_vale@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ok.

        Environments suggesting an afterlife may be encountered via certain meditation techniques.

        Interviews with children who recall past lives suggests reincarnation.

        Something fitting description of a “creator of the universe” may be encountered via certain meditation techniques.

        Little people. Hmm. You got me there. But the literature is filled with reports. I hear that frequent fasting is good.

        Spirits. I’d advise hallucinogens.

        And of course, these methods unavoidably esoteric and depthy.

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• cameron_vale@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So many of us think of ourselves as smart and sensible while actually being as locked into the paradigm of the hour as a 13th century religious zealot. Same insanity, different century.

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