You write like a seminary school dropout with a 3rd grade understanding of biology fishing for a fox news daytime correspondent position.
You could trust the evidence of your own senses
Very funny you mention that, because your own senses aren’t worth diddly-squat in the scientific world. It’s what you would call “anecdotal evidence”… Barely better than a secondhand recounting of a Facebook post. It’s especially funny to put human senses on a pedestal when communicating to someone who wears corrective lenses. Do you even know what your senses are? It’s mostly chemical/electrical impulses made by bits of meat, sent along bundles of meat to a meat-based signal processor, which interperts those signals and makes it available to other parts of your meatiness to react to. I don’t trust my senses, because what I have to sense with is made to see food, hear predators, and smell mates. My senses are wholly insufficient to see individual cells, let alone the proteins that make them up, and the nucleic acids that code for those proteins. My fingers lack the precision to detect the shape and size of a virus. You can’t rely on your eyes for that you need a microscope. You can’t measure tiny distance by touch, you need a micrometer. I don’t trust my senses, but I have confidence in the steel, glass and repeatable precision of a machine.
…wait till you’re actually sick before reaching for the medicine.
Seems like you are the kind of person who waits for a car crash before reaching for their seatbelt. Frankly, the world’s is better off it this is true.
It really is funny, because there is no shortage of optical and auditory illusions. Hundreds of thousands of people claim to have seen ghosts, or flying saucers, or bigfoot, but none of those things has been confirmed to exist. Your senses do lie to you, and they lie a lot. Pilots are trained to rely on their instruments when flying, because your inner ear evolved to keep you upright when walking and running, and not to tell you which way is up in a tumbling aircraft. Your eyes evolved to spot food and predators, but even our advanced human eyes fail to discern the ocean from the sky, and no small number of experienced pilots have crashed because they didn’t trust the artificial horizon in their airplane.
You could trust the evidence of your own senses and wait till you’re actually sick before reaching for the medicine.
You write like a seminary school dropout with a 3rd grade understanding of biology fishing for a fox news daytime correspondent position.
Very funny you mention that, because your own senses aren’t worth diddly-squat in the scientific world. It’s what you would call “anecdotal evidence”… Barely better than a secondhand recounting of a Facebook post. It’s especially funny to put human senses on a pedestal when communicating to someone who wears corrective lenses. Do you even know what your senses are? It’s mostly chemical/electrical impulses made by bits of meat, sent along bundles of meat to a meat-based signal processor, which interperts those signals and makes it available to other parts of your meatiness to react to. I don’t trust my senses, because what I have to sense with is made to see food, hear predators, and smell mates. My senses are wholly insufficient to see individual cells, let alone the proteins that make them up, and the nucleic acids that code for those proteins. My fingers lack the precision to detect the shape and size of a virus. You can’t rely on your eyes for that you need a microscope. You can’t measure tiny distance by touch, you need a micrometer. I don’t trust my senses, but I have confidence in the steel, glass and repeatable precision of a machine.
Seems like you are the kind of person who waits for a car crash before reaching for their seatbelt. Frankly, the world’s is better off it this is true.
It really is funny, because there is no shortage of optical and auditory illusions. Hundreds of thousands of people claim to have seen ghosts, or flying saucers, or bigfoot, but none of those things has been confirmed to exist. Your senses do lie to you, and they lie a lot. Pilots are trained to rely on their instruments when flying, because your inner ear evolved to keep you upright when walking and running, and not to tell you which way is up in a tumbling aircraft. Your eyes evolved to spot food and predators, but even our advanced human eyes fail to discern the ocean from the sky, and no small number of experienced pilots have crashed because they didn’t trust the artificial horizon in their airplane.
You stand proudly as an example for us all.