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Old 11-08-2006, 09:49 PM   #40 (permalink)
ahimel
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Originally Posted by Radical View Post
Good point, this is exactly how cults start. It's good to be open to new ideas, but to blindly accept them without sufficient evidence backing up the claims is just plain foolishness.
Where did you find someone suggesting that the claims should be blindly accepted?

And what would you consider "sufficient evidence"? I would argue that the only way to gather evidence on IM claims is to try it. If it works, then that's sufficient evidence to accept it. If it doesn't, that's sufficient evidence to reject it. So the only possible way to decide what to believe is to try it yourself.

Which, IIRC, is exactly what Steve has proposed in every article he's written on IM: try it yourself, and see what you think.
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