And keep in mind, the social process of science, which you seem to think holds you to too high of a standard, is not merely interested in your ideas being right, but that you have effectively communicated them to the extent that other people can verify that they are right.
Two things I forgot in my other reply: first, testing on yourself is a higher standard than peer review, if your purpose is to find something that works for you.
Second, if this actually were about “my” ideas (and it isn’t), I’ve certainly effectively communicated many of them to the extent of verifiability, since many people have reported here and elsewhere about their experiments with them.
But very few of “my” ideas are new in any event—I have a few new approaches to presentation or learning, sure, maybe some new connections between fields (ev psych + priming + somatic markers + memory-prediction framework + memory reconsolidation, etc.), and a relatively-new emphasis on real-time, personal empirical testing. (I say relatively new because Bandler was advocating extreme testing of this sort 20+ years ago, but for some reason it never caught on in the field at large.)
And I’m not aware that any of these ideas is particularly controversial in the scientific community. Nobody ’s pushing for more individual empirical testing per se, but the “brief therapy” movement that resulted in things like CBT is certainly more focused that direction than before.
(The reason I stopped even bothering to write about any of that, though, is simply that I ended up in some sort of weird loop where people insist on references, and then ignore the ones I supply, even when they’re online papers or Wikipedia. Is it any wonder that I would then conclude they didn’t really want the references?)
Two things I forgot in my other reply: first, testing on yourself is a higher standard than peer review, if your purpose is to find something that works for you.
Second, if this actually were about “my” ideas (and it isn’t), I’ve certainly effectively communicated many of them to the extent of verifiability, since many people have reported here and elsewhere about their experiments with them.
But very few of “my” ideas are new in any event—I have a few new approaches to presentation or learning, sure, maybe some new connections between fields (ev psych + priming + somatic markers + memory-prediction framework + memory reconsolidation, etc.), and a relatively-new emphasis on real-time, personal empirical testing. (I say relatively new because Bandler was advocating extreme testing of this sort 20+ years ago, but for some reason it never caught on in the field at large.)
And I’m not aware that any of these ideas is particularly controversial in the scientific community. Nobody ’s pushing for more individual empirical testing per se, but the “brief therapy” movement that resulted in things like CBT is certainly more focused that direction than before.
(The reason I stopped even bothering to write about any of that, though, is simply that I ended up in some sort of weird loop where people insist on references, and then ignore the ones I supply, even when they’re online papers or Wikipedia. Is it any wonder that I would then conclude they didn’t really want the references?)