The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment,
it's wrong.
--Richard Feynman
This chapter was written by Dr. Seth Roberts, professor emeritus of psychology at the
University of CaliforniaBerkeley and professor of psychology at Tsinghua University. His
work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and The Scientist, and he is on the
editorial board of the journal Nutrition.
I started self-experimentation when I was a grad student. I was studying experimental
psychology; self-experimentation was a way to learn how to do experiments.
One of my rst self-experiments was about acne. My dermatologist had prescribed
tetracycline, an antibiotic. Just for practice, I did an experiment to measure its e ect. I varied