Brilliant example, I'm glad someone in here is thinking rather than just arguing by trying to attack with personal insults. I hope you do stay, I'm sure you can be one of the most conductive of critical thinkers here. This is a very intelligent comment, unfortunately I am the one who would be acting like the pigeon, not the man.
I wonder if you realize that your response was very typical for a person lacking empathy and used to manipulating people? You ignored parts of my message, confuscated the point I made and topped it off by praising me in what seems to me an attempt to "win me over". You are using strategies that work well against people of lesser intelligence, especially online. But they won't work on a skeptical forum. Unless, of course, your goal is simply attention. That you probably will get, but only inside the forum.
I do feel that the visualization is something silly like that, however I would still like to test that to convince myself that it does not work and to settle my curiosity. The reason for that is that as soon as I had finished my visualization, the man said the compression across his forehead was gone. He did not know what I was doing, and he says this symptom of compression has never receded before. So, even if it is as silly as pigeons, in this case I would like to try it out.
Do you really believe that a failed test would convince you? And couldn't you just find a friend or colleague to try your massage on? There are plenty of people with migraines. Heck, if all you want is a test, you could go to a believer forum. I'm sure you'd find a willing guinea pig there.
I invite any of you to step up and be willing to e-mail and/or call to this person and have a friendly but skeptical chat with him about what took place and how he came to interpret that and why.
So what happened to the affidavit? Why don't you yourself call the man and ask him to write one, then post it? Why should we do your work for you?
I have never made that claim. I do not believe that any of this works, yet I want to confirm that, just in case. If it works, I have found a way to help migraine sufferers, and if it fails, I have an interesting case of falsified woo to write about. I would be happy with either outcome.
If this is indeed your M.O. then I'm certain that in the past you've done similar tests and found out a claimed ability of yours didn't work. Could you provide some examples of times when you admitted you had been wrong?
We have no evidence that I can not offer an effective treatment against migraines.
We also don't have evidence that learning Swahili can't cure migraines. Or having a herring in your pocket, or tap-dancing. Yet no one is claiming we should invest our time to finding such evidence. Why? Because there's no reason to expect they would have any effect. Just a there's no reason to expect your "treatment" would have.
All we have is one man who insists that it not only worked, but that it worked really well. If you have an understanding of the scientific method, you would encourage a simple test where the same method is attempted again and offered to demonstrate that it does not work.
No, I would not. The belief of a single man, untrained in the scientific method is, as I stated before, worth about a much as that of a pigeon. Whether his migraines really stopped or not, it proves absolutely nothing. The improvement could have been caused by the weather of that day, by something he ate, or a million other things, most likely one being simple chance. So the man's testimony isn't sufficient grounds to try any further exams,
unless you believe you can actually do something to people's brains. If you, as you've said, think it's silly, then there's no point to this whole thing.
At least cut those possible reasons for "non-success" off at the pass.
