A biohacker argues that demanding a mechanistic explanation for why something works is a rhetorical trick to dismiss effective practices. Newtonian physics was incomplete until quantum mechanics revealed deeper layers. Scientific understanding is always provisional, built on stories that later get replaced.
So many people have come to me in the realm of biohacking, and I can say, I know this works because you can do it, and you get results. And they say, but it can't work because I don't know why it works. Which, again, is logically absurd. So then I came up with the best answer for this type of critic. Say, oh, you need a mechanism of action. Okay, it's leprechauns. And of course, they go, well, hold on a second here. Let's go through the entire history of science since the Enlightenment, and almost every single theory about how. How things work, including Newtonian physics, is wrong. We tell ourselves stories to make it easier for us to see how it works, but they're not actually real. They aren't true, because there's usually a layer underneath it that usually ends up in quantum physics.
