Naturalistic Fallacy and How to Find Experts
There are many self proclaimed ‘experts’ in the field of human health, nutrition, exercise and relationships. But how do you know if these people really know what they are talking about?
Credentials is at least a start but isn’t the only thing to look at. Do the experts practice what they preach? On the other hand are they preaching too much about too many things they couldn’t possibly know about?
It seems to be that so called experts start to preach about more things than they are capable of knowing and quickly revert to the naturalistic fallacy to explain concepts outside of their area of expertise.
In this podcast we’ll discuss the naturalistic fallacy and how to spot when a so called expert is just feeding you a line of non-sense.
We’ll also talk about a practical way to tell if an ‘expert’ really knows what they are talking about or if they’re just full of hot air.
John
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I’ve been thinking about what I’m grateful for recently, and your pod casts are definetly one of those things
Thanks a lost guys, I really appreciate ‘em and all your other stuff.
“natural birth has a high chance of dying” Holy Jeeves!
is that the inversion of “naturalistic-fallacy”
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cure conspiracy – Aids – unlogical argumentation
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Good luck for the next podcast
Thanks for the insight guys, very well done. makes me rethink and question some of the information I have received from some so called “experts” I have been listing to.
Interesting perspective! Thanks a lot!
Chris
The farmer example (eating all the stuff cuz he knows its okay) isn’t really good reasoning tho IMHO, and doesn’t always go.
Tobacco companies know smoking is bad (and probably knew long time before the rest of the world), but I’m sure a lot of the big bosses of the tobacco companies still smoke.
A lot of people willingly do things they know are bad for them. So even if this big farmer would know his cows get bad hormone or med injections, that doesn’t mean he would stop eating meat, necessarily.
No… but he’d eat “better” meat.
Smoking is a vice. People know it’s bad… yet still do it.
You also have to remember that we do these things “on the fly”. They aren’t really scripted other than the topic we want to discuss.
Just think of it as “2 dudes in a bar shooting the shit”
… so ALL of our examples might not be the best in the world… lol
Joe,
I think the point he was trying to make is that if you choose a so-called “natural” home birth, and there’s a complication, the chances of mother/baby survival is probably about the same as some woman who died from giving birth in some some log cabin in the early 1800’s. Not good. My wife had a rupture after the otherwise completely normal birth of my son and I watched her turn completely grey right in front of my eyes. The OB (also damn good surgeon) gave her a clotting agent, and was able to stop the bleeding and, in my opinion, “saved her life”. If we were in that log cabin 150 years ago, she wouldn’t be here. Likewise, if we had elected natural birth at home with a mid-wife (no offense to any midwives out there), I’m pretty certain my son would be motherless today. I’ll take modern medicine anyday. But again, we live in a society that gives us choice. The choice is yours to either have a natural home-birth, or not listen to the podcasts! lol!
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Just FYI. Current statistics show that positive birth outcomes in the US are substantially higher for home births vs. hospital deliveries. Chris R., my wife had a similar situation with the birth of our son. The midwives in attendance handled the situation professionally, and we had a great home birth experience.
Joe, if those statistics are accurate, then thank god I live in Canada!!