Magnus' journal

[Shannon]

It is very hard to research what you can't see, and must experience and encounter only indirectly. It is also hard to get anywhere when you have eight different groups (or more) all saying the rest are wrong... insisting on absolutes (it can't work at all/it works on everything)... and ignoring each others findings because they can't accept it, believe it, or use it to back up the position they've chosen come-heck-or-high-water, facts be damned!

Then throw in the people who don't have a formal education, who DO know what they're doing, who are getting results that conflict with the "findings" of half the "professionals", who can't accept that simply because the findings were discovered by someone who didn't invest $150,000 and eight years in going to college, and the people who don't have a formal education who DON'T know what they're doing, who THINK they know everything because they read some websites... ugh. It's a mess.

I'm just following what works and trying to improve on it. I'm an empiricist.