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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 5103741" data-attributes="member: 63706">I'm glad the person who wrote that calls himself fallacy man. It fits perfectly. People who want any evidence to prove their views will resort to any bias confirming evidence they can find. It's a thought process similar to superstition, and it is used by people on either side of an argument. The fact is, though, that anecdotal evidence is generally the same thing as the first two steps in the scientific process, making an observation and forming a hypothesis. Anecdotes have their place, they are not completely worthless as fallacy man asserts, and they shouldn't be dismissed outright. They also aren't complete or reliable as a means to inform policy decisions. Sometimes they are all you have, and in the case of ivermectin, there was never any legitimate justification in not allowing its widespread use.</blockquote>