Actually that is something I have wanted to ask about but I haven’t really found the right person to ask or the right forum, that being, how many instances do we see in which something that was previously completely written off of pseudoscience turn around and actually become established science.
Off at the top of my head the only thing I can think of is how the existence of germs was originally thought of as complete Insanity, and the paranoia of one addled individual who swore up and down that these invisible creatures where everywhere and were making everybody sick.
There is the matter of the Earth revolving around the sun being the reverse at one point, which is mistaken for a religious claim however at the time of galileo, other scientists came to completely different conclusions with their own telescopes and had refused to endorse his position due to a lack of evidence.
If I remember correctly, Galileo had an obsession with pillars that would have been even stronger evidence than what he thought he saw in the telescope had he just looked a little closely. One of those crazy little ironies I suppose.
And finally, the Big Bang Theory in a weird inversion of expectation was actually established by a priest, who was mocked by scientists who came up with the name Big Bang as a way of writing off his idea as a uniquely Catholic perspective that no way resembled good science. And then the steady state universe theory kind of collapsed and was replaced by the Big Bang Theory that had been so mocked. If I were correctly I believe Albert Einstein had his photograph taken with this priest.
But outside of that, I can’t think of anything, it would be cool to find a list of these somewhere.
If I understand what you were saying, is that we have evidence that there is something there, but that’s about all we have, and anyone claiming to have anything more than that when it comes to hypnosis is a charlatan who is best ignored. And that those who practice meditation need to be careful to avoid making big claims with it, and not have high expectations.
Because we have evidence that it works, but nothing more than that, Placebo is the best official classification it can have even if that doesn’t completely perfectly fit, but it is the best label we can give it for now until we know more.
Am I understanding correctly, or if I completely lost the plot? Because I’m only telling you as I understand it. Which I admit considering you have already corrected me on some terms that I did not know, my understanding may be more limited then I realized it was prior to entering this conversation.
Doesn’t suddenly make Walmart innocent, plus unlike walmart, Amazon can actually be helpful to a small community that doesn’t have specialty shops. That said I recommend not using Amazon if what you are looking for can be found on a different site, actually I recommend using Amazon to browse products, and then finding another site to buy the product. I make sure to almost never buy computer parts from amazon, because there was one time I bought a motherboard from Amazon thinking it was a reputable dealer, instead it fried out and my protection plan was fucking worthless because I actually bought it from a bootlegger who filed off the serial number of the motherboard he copied. I was able to still make it out, but tech support told me what actually happened when I came to me number.
So I buy from Newegg unless the Amazon price is just that much better.
If there is no absence of evidence, then we can’t disregard it as bullshit now can we? It sounds more like we haven’t found the right applications or we need to develop better methods of using it.
As for it’s not working as a standalone treatment, does anything these days? I’m on medication for bipolar and anxiety but I still need to regularly see my therapist. The medication by itself isn’t going to fix anything.
I’m glad there are no hard feelings, and I apologize I guess I am a bit naive on the nature of these journals, I figured that just getting one published and recognized was already an incredibly difficult process subject to much scrutiny.
If this is not the case, then that is news to me and wish to be better informed.
I will try to get you those peer reviewed papers on the smoking and irritable bowel syndrome claims, but for the future is there a good way to know the impact score of a paper? There are a lot of papers on meditation and even some claiming to make statements on the subject of life after death that I would love to see further scrutinized, while the former is pretty much accepted by everyone at this point, the latter is very much a question and a question that many neurologists and physicists believe is answered by no.
I apologize for my outbursts, but I have ran into so many dude Bros over the years… the kind of people who think science is agreeing with their favorite YouTube Skeptic and yelling “FAKE” at anything they don’t understand or contradictis their preferred skeptic…
I run into this kind of person a lot on science forums, so knowing if a forum has those kinds of people let’s me know if actual science is going to be discussed here or if it’s going to devolve into a circle jerk.
It’s easy for me to lose my temper. I should be better than this, and I will thank you for teaching me about two new things. One impact factor and two that PubMed is not by itself a journal, I don’t publish things because I’m not a doctor myself. I merely someone who tries to stay educated. I apologize if I ever gave the impression that I was trained in The Sciences as opposed to someone who merely has an interest in them.
Hypnotism is a card I typically have, and the more negative someone reacts to it, the easier it is for me to test the water.
I apologize for my deception, but as far as I am aware, it isn’t a question whether or not hypnosis exists and actually works, it’s a question of what the practical application sport are. One thing we know for sure is that memory recovery is not one of these applications, as the hypnotic state will cause someone to create a memory not actually remember one. Which is a shame. This is why one needs to be very wary of any past life memories that have resurfaced thanks to meditation, I’d be wary of any past life memories at all to be honest, given how easy self deception is when it comes to just things involving this life.
Except it’s not a placebo and it has actually been shown to have an effect on the human mind, there is a difference between thinking you’re getting better and actually getting better. Placebo can only make you think that you’re getting better, there is no actual measurable effect. Which is not the case with hypnosis.
Here’s another Journal, it was in my previous post, but admittedly I got the link wrong at first and had to edited in, so I don’t know that you actually saw it, unless you mean another site entirely in which case why not just say so?
And I have no idea what you mean by an impact factor, I have never heard this term before when discussing these kinds of things.
If you want documentation on hypnosis being used to treat smoking and irritable bowel syndrome, I can provide that too.
Hypnotism is a fun card to play, because it’s the new meditation in some ways. In that you can basically tell Skeptics from pseudoskeptics depending on how quickly people try to debunk it.
This one has been sighted five times in the past 2 years, with four of them being from this year alone.
There are people who love science, and there are people who know science. You have outed yourself as the former.
Bro my therapist uses hypnosis to calm down erratic patients, it isn’t her main card, but it is a weapon in her Arsenal that has shown to work. She is the director of Behavioral Health at her practice.
She is also an atheist and a self-proclaimed rationalist.
Meditation used to be considered “woo woo” nonsense too but that’s not really how the peer review worked out.
Hypnotism is real, it doesn’t actually let you control and it certainly isn’t Magic or some kind of psychic power like it is in Pokemon, but it has been documented as a effective treatment for irritable bowel syndrome and smoking addiction.
Bro if Dowsing Roads could actually find water, it wouldn’t matter if people thought it was magic, there’d be something there to study and figure out why.