Yet people still do studies on alternative "medicines" and other stupidity like "wind turbine sickness." That is literally doing something dumb that everyone will hear about.
Doing studies on those things you think are stupid is the right thing to do. Counter-intuitive stuff is found all the time in science. Occasionally those alternative medicines get tested and turn out to work, in which case they become regular medicine.
By declaring something as "too dumb to study", you're a priori declaring the result, which is bad science.
Wow... that would have to be almost as good correlation as vaccines cause autism. I have a feeling it is more likely due to easier access to knowledge.
Probably a correlation of lead exposure to anti-vaccines views then. I noticed it's mostly a slightly older generation to my own that are anti-vaccine.
People even older than that remember what its like to not have them.
As food for thought about how we treat the mentally ill, it is quite interesting. Hopefully, nobody will go away believing the nonsense about spirits attaching to people, but the manner in which they give the depressed a role to grow into and an external reason for their suffering could really help some. The alternative "you are internally broken" message from modern science can be unpleasant, even if it's true.
That's missing the point though. This is not about the inconvenience of certain gestures, this is about the constant stream of notifications raining down on you.
