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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
And your argument is just weird. Enjoy whatever smug satisfaction you derive by pretending to be the arbiter of what is useless for anyone but yourself.
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I am not pretending to be the arbiter of anything. That is the whole point of an facts/evidence based method of evaluation compared to statements that lots of people believe in something so it must be useful/valid. Someone may claim that anything is useful whereas an objective evaluation is based on the facts of the matter. If reproducible evidence is not available, what is your basis for saying that something is useful.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Also... you clearly seem to be conflating "useless services" with "ineffectual home remedies" or pseudoscience.. But whatever. You clearly know best.  |
As you said: "If it was useless, no one would be using it." though there seems to be considerable evidence that quite a few people are willing to abandon logic and reason in claiming that anything is useful. Now if you hadn't separated that sentence into it's own paragraph, we might not be having this discussion.
As for knowing best? I tend to take a facts/evidence based approach to evaluating usefulness. Perhaps a bit weird of me but that's my choice and it works for me.