(August 24, 2017 at 7:45 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(August 24, 2017 at 7:32 pm)Khemikal Wrote: -and there's the crux of it, testimony..at it's absolute best... is a hanging claim. A story, floated. What we corroborate testimony with, however, is the evidence which lends credence to the claim.
No amount of arguing will change that relationship. Such is simply the nature of testimony as compared and related to evidence.
By your logic then it would be impossible to have evidence that a given medicine gives pain relief since it is only supported by the testimony of the test subjects. Massive fail on your part.
Some people swear by Tylenol. The shit does nothing for me. So, yeah. There I would agree with you. Hell, there are people who insist that acupuncture works, too.
