RIP Chester Bennington

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Ahldagor [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Questioning credentials is ad homine laramin. You bought the placebo of mental health treatment, glad it worked for you, but you're massively generalizing in your notions of the effectiveness of treatments from your personal experience. You should read "The Fountain of Quiet" by Keith Waldrop.

Yeah I did high school speech and debate too [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But look, neurobiology is not something you can understand from taking a high school class. I don't feel any more qualified to make claims about it than I do about architecture, programming automated cars, or quantum mechanics. So when you're discussing topics which require expert knowledge, you present the opinions of experts.

But when I did exactly that, the refutation was basically "nah, I know better". Now if the person making that refutation has a strong background in the field themselves then that's relevant. Otherwise it's just a layperson who doesn't have anywhere near the understanding of an expert discounting an expert's opinion without basis.