[Goanet] Exploding the myths on Goanet

[Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão]

If some did not understand why I posted this site under this thread,
here’s why. 
Some excerpts from the site: 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/03/bad-science-manipulate-mind-causality

 

1- …(this is one reason why, in evidence-based medicine,
"expert opinion" is ranked as the least helpful form of information….

 

2- …This is just the latest in a whole raft of research showing how
we can be manipulated into believing that we have control over chance outcomes,
simply by presenting information differently, or giving cues which imply that
skill had a role to play…

 

3-… One series of studies has shown that if you manipulate someone
to make them feel powerful (through memories of a situation in which they were
powerful, for example), they imagine themselves to have even greater control
over outcomes that are still purely determined by chance, which perhaps goes
some way to explaining the hubris of the great ….

 

COMMENT : It is so obvious from the above excerpts that “expert
opinion” is not at all helpful on Goanet. The posts presented on Goanet by some
“expert opinion”, by claims of some internet sites are bogus and the ones they 
cite are genuine is pure manipulation. And lastly, when we have some handful of
adulators it goes some way to explaining the hubris of the  “expert opinion”.




Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.