Originally Posted by 3alarmer

...cherry picking is when you select out one or several instances of a cash revenue marketing gimmick, and use it to condemn everything written about a topic. Like this:




By your rationale here, my selecting out the portions of that web link (which I included), that were pertinent to my point, is "cherry picking". I think you are wrong in that. Were I engaging in that practice, I would hardly have linked you to the entire page and suggested that you read it. "Cherry picking, as such, is a deliberate practice to deceive, by omitting pertinent information from a source. In this case, the other stuff is hardly relevant to my chosen subject of visualization techniques to address chronic pain. I might have missed it, but it appeared to me that all of it was offered for free, on the internet. And none of it contained advice to avoid any other method or source of treatment. I think you're just making **** up now. Again, I have no idea of why.

If it's in an effort to defend the less sophisticated from quackery, I would suggest to you that's a very tall order. I hope you're up to it, because there are a lot of places you need to visit on the internet before you're finished.

...I suspect our main disagreement is that you seem to feel there is a danger from keeping an open mind on stuff like this. I understand that there are various levels of crazy, but I don't feel qualified to solve the problem. And I would hate it, if someone who might actually benefit from something like this, were put off from trying it, simply because portions of it are not currently demonstrated or refuted by science. Human pain is a complex and poorly understood phenomenon. And it's not like you can't get into serious trouble searching out a solution to chronic pain in the standard, allopathic medical treatment model.

Not everyone who looks for a solution to chronic pain ends up as a victim of some greedy pain clinic owner, writing endless scripts for Oxycontin. Similarly, not everyone who explores this "earthing" business will end up poorer and wearing special shoes.

Again, I won't speculate on why your view of this might be what it is. We're all different.