The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
treatments, they would be doing low-cost studies of what happens when you avoid certain
foods. Humiliating. Colleagues in other specialties might make fun of them. To justify their
avoidance of embarrassment, the whole profession tells the rest of us, based on "extensive
scienti c studies," that black is white. Self-experimentation allows acne su erers to ignore the
strange claims of dermatologists, not to mention their dangerous drugs (such as Accutane).
Persons with acne can simply change their diets until they gure out what foods cause the
problem.
Gregor Mendel was a monk. He was under no pressure to publish; he could say whatever he
wanted about horticulture without fear for his job. Charles Darwin was wealthy. He had no job
to lose. He could write On the Origin of Species very slowly. Alfred Wegener, who proposed
continental drift, was a meteorologist. Geology was a hobby of his. Because they had total