Iâd be pretty cautious about putting much weight on those experiences of yourself or your friend that youâve mentioned. Doctors see people everyday who swear that crystals cured their arthritis or that medication A works for them but not medication B (when B is just A with a different brand name). Iâve learnt to become very skeptical of the patterns I recognise in my own health. Iâve had experiences where I could have sworn that A was causing B that later turned out to be wrong.
As it is I donât see why your prior would be âvegan diets make thinking worseâ rather than âvegan diets donât affect thinkingâ (my own suspicion) or even âvegan diets make thinking betterâ (Iâm sure someone out there has their own anecdotes supporting this)
It wasnât my prior at all. It was a response to observations that took many years to arrive at, it is also a response to some empirical evidence, which I mentioned.
Iâd be pretty cautious about putting much weight on those experiences of yourself or your friend that youâve mentioned. Doctors see people everyday who swear that crystals cured their arthritis or that medication A works for them but not medication B (when B is just A with a different brand name). Iâve learnt to become very skeptical of the patterns I recognise in my own health. Iâve had experiences where I could have sworn that A was causing B that later turned out to be wrong.
As it is I donât see why your prior would be âvegan diets make thinking worseâ rather than âvegan diets donât affect thinkingâ (my own suspicion) or even âvegan diets make thinking betterâ (Iâm sure someone out there has their own anecdotes supporting this)
It wasnât my prior at all. It was a response to observations that took many years to arrive at, it is also a response to some empirical evidence, which I mentioned.