Message from @Dr.Wol
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Medicine you can never guarantee the outcome, you can only assume that statistically you get a desired outcome
So.just five people a prescription drug and shove em.out the door
medicine is a science lmao, science is only about predictability
anything else is BS
It's like giving people mainainance
Well that's part of the testing process sadly
Its not a cure all
You can not with absolute certaintly predict medicine Cytos
medicine works 80% of the time? thats pretictable
You try collections of chemicals until one works
Is it permanant?
Sometimes it just makes things worse
can add a couple of factors to make the prediction more or less likely? good science
thats statistics
Because while we understand a lot more about the brain it's still a very complex organ
you dont need an absolute solution for it to be science
If i repeat the same testing of a medicine 10,000 times all the same test i will not get 10,000 times the same outcome
It deals with a whole fuckton of functions and wires get crossed in weird ways
science produces theories of predictability
Sigh I really don't like such mechanical robotic approaches to science
so if it gets 80% the same result, you can sciencefy that in 80% of the time you will get that result
thats not the scientific process though, thats statistics
Like did you know that separation between parts of the brain can "fix" epilepsy? Or that electroshock therapy is useful in cases of extreme depression?
XD sadly you need such an approach to get repeatable, if not 100%, results
Yeah the point ultimately is that we keep testing and iterating
Is this why certain circles hate rupert sheldrake so much?
XD just ask tesla
Nobody iterates on "it's magic"
Scientific process is, you make a hypothesis
And every single time i test it (bar wrongful anomalies) i will get the exact same outcome as your hypothesis prescribes
im sure he was mad depressed
and was electrocuting himself
as a treatment
That's not a treatment that's a fetish
hey if it worked
principles and procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses
i mean fuck he lost everything and died pennyless
there is nothing in that definition about absolute predictive capacity
did not seem like he was to traumatised about it till after he stopped shocking himself daily due to losing hsi equipment
if something was only science when you can prove what will happen 100% of the time, the only thing that maybe could be science is math
MAYBE