I once kicked the TV and it started working (TRUE STORY)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

However, I fully understand that while those two things seem related, I cannot beyond a reasonable doubt make the claim that

1.kicking TV's cure them
2 my kick indeed cured the TV (maybe something else happened at the same time?)
3. also it does not help me understand how the TV was cured


This in short is why we use the scientific process.

1. No ensure that things are not random error
2. To understand how things work and how they are related
3. To make sure that following something doesn't lead to something worse (you kick the tv, and break it further, for instance)

[marybourg]

1. Must have been back in the days of

tubes. That was the standard first-strike repair effort back then. Worked about half the time, but usually only until the tube loosened up again.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. yes, was a whilst ago.

[Recursion]

11. Some transistor TVs still had em relays in various places

And even in a transistor TV, a jolt could reseat a loose port somewhere.

[Wilms]

2. Just wondering. What medical model was used to heal your foot?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. time. nt

[MannyGoldstein]

4. How did Vioxx kill between 40,000 and 60,000 people?

I fundamentally agree with you, but the scientific process has been having some serious problems of late, in the rare instances where it's used.

Frustrating!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. at no point am i claiming the process/users are perfect

i am just saying, at this point, this is still the best method we have before we say things like "X cures Y" or "X causes Y"

[MannyGoldstein]

10. I suspect that the whole system is so utterly rigged these days,

that the scientific method will be subverted time and time again until we make a clean sweep of our societal institutions.

There's a huge problem when the referees are deeply corrupt.

[Gore1FL]

12. That's why Science is a continual test.

it shakes out subversion through experiment.

[truebluegreen]

26. If it is honestly applied it does.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

14. you're really going to throw yourself completely in the "ineffectiveness of science in medicine"

cohort, eh?

What do you suggest for a clean sweep? A purge of all researchers and orders to the gulag?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. also i think in the case of Vioxx the scientific process was definitely subverted

some researcher falsified efficacy studies

[Spider Jerusalem]

19. That's not a problem with the scientific process.

That's a problem with oversight and scrutiny. The issue is the essentially corrupt nature of the pharmaceuticals approval process and the relative weakness of the FDA, which acts more often in the interests of pharmaceutical companies than those of the public (see for instance the FDA recommendation that Tylenol have a label warning of possible liver damage...in 1978. McNeil's response was "but we'll lose a lot of money if we do that"...so, they didn't, until over 30 years later.)

[ProgressSaves]

20. That was failure caused by corruption.

Not science.

The FDA is a hen house watched by way too many foxes.

Taking medicine just because it's approved by the FDA is not advised.

But trying something just because it's not is equally ridiculous.

We need watchdogs with stronger jaws and sharper teeth.

[firsttimer]

8. Was it a tube TV?

Your question to number 3 can be explained .

[progressoid]

9. It was a miracle...

Water, fire, air and dirt
Fucking magnets, how do they work?
And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist
Y’all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed.

[Heidi]

21. Miracles!

[kickysnana]

13. I was told the technical term for that was Calcitro Concussion. n/t

[RobertEarl]

15. Mechanic said car computer was my problem

$120 advice.

So when it quit again, i thumped the thing hard. Car ran!!

My science inquisitiveness had me checking the computer. Disassembled it. Found a bad contact! 10 cents of solder.

One thing leads to another, unless you have a closed mind.

[Starry Messenger]

16. Your foot is magic!

[NuclearDem]

17. That's not nearly as cool as how I used to fix my old Sega Genesis and N64.

I nearly passed out once blowing into a cartridge.

[pinboy3niner]

18. I once kicked my TV and there was a plane crash in New Jersey

I live in California, but still...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. A Right Winger would claim kicking the TV got it working because it was lazy.

[BarackTheVote]

23. Working at a TV station where most of the equipment is now over 10 years old

hitting malfunctioning equipment is the #1 go-to

[Gormy Cuss]

24. But you cured the TV!

Others on this thread have cured their TVs or have explained how that would cure the TV, and yet you doubt that kicking is an effective treatment?

After reading this thread I'm going to kick my flat panel TV once a week just as a precaution.

[a2liberal]

25. percussive maintenance

[GeorgeGist]

27. I put mine in the car and drove it to the repair shop.

Worked 3 times in a row.

[Glassunion]

28. The same thing worked for my nephew

I kicked him in the ass and he then got a job.