Tim Ferriss
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I have no idea.
But, like, you don't have to go very far to get into really terra incognita, like, unknown, there be dragons, waters.
It's actually very easy.
You don't have to get out into remote viewing or whatever, even though, again, I'm very, like, interested in that stuff.
But it's, like...
just look at the placebo effect, which gets... Understandably, right?
Because people are trying to assess something, and that is the intervention in some of the RCTs that I fund, let's just say.
But the fact that there are commonly people who produce the same effect, same magnitude of effect with a sugar pill or placebo or a sham surgery is incredible.
Incredibly strange.
Yeah.
It is super, super strange.
So I will say, not to be the broken record citing Richard Feynman and the it's easy to fool yourself, but it is easy to fool yourself.
So it is a challenge to be
to attempt to be radically open-minded while also being suitably skeptical.
Right?
Because there are a lot of Conners out there.
There are a lot of delusional people out there.
There's a lot of bad science out there.
There's a lot of pseudoscience.
God save you if you're getting all your health advice from Instagram.