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Mia Breeze's avatar

This is such a good point -

"... I have never seen one with a specific methodology FOR the control,it is just assumed that it has been performed adequately."

I have also never seen this - aside from Dr Harold Hillman's work but he was also more or less making the this point. If having a control methodology section was required for publication and peer review, I rate accepted science would look a lot different today.

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Chronicles of Retardia's avatar

It’s timely you should write this article. Just yesterday I had a discussion on Anthony Colpo’s brilliant piece on virology, with a young woman in the comments who is not on board with team no-virus and claimed to have ‘seen’ contagion occur on many occasions. I gently explained to her (doing my best Tom Cowan imitation) that she had merely observed something that she assumed to be contagion because that is what she’d been told. I then explained that to prove that what she’d observed was contagion she’d have to carry out an experiment with at least one control. She doubled down, saying she didn’t need to do an experiment, she’d ‘seen’ it. So I replied that, unless she’d seen a microscopic particle pass from a sick person to a healthy person and make the healthy person sick, she’d seen no such thing. She liked that comment and did not reply. I then posted the link to Tom’s video from June 26, where he masterfully describes the illogic of assuming contagion, yet again. I hope I caused a small crack in her certainty and started another journey into the world of critical thinking 🤷🏻‍♀️

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