Originally Posted by
George Christiansen
How do you know that they are experts? Do you even know how they came to their conclusions? What about the people that disagree with them?
The comparison to trusting that Rip is an expert actually demonstrates why these other folks deserve skepticism.
Rip:
1-Presented an actual rationale for his theories in the SS book and the thousands of other sources he has put out here and on video and in seminars.
2-Gave you a testable and falsifiable theory and the protocol to do so, which I assume worked for you and thus verified his theory.
3-Has run his "experiment" with thousands of clients either directly or through someone who used his theory, which further verified his conclusions.
On top of this, Rip has given us access to a lot more of his thinking and education in general to demonstrate whether or not he is a reasonable and honest person in general.
This may not make him an expert per se and certainly not an expert in anything more than the contents of SS, but he has earned your trust through measurable means when it comes to how to get noobs stronger fast, right?
I see no resemblance to this and how you are measuring the expertise of these other folks:
- Total strangers and thus no means to know their driving motivations.
- An education that you likely have next to zero idea of the contents of.
- An association that that you likely have next to zero idea of the qualifications for.
- A business/patient history that you likely have next to zero idea of the success rate of.
- Presenting a theory entirely without reference to the rationale or the data that the rationale is based upon and that is contradicted by other people who claim the same expertise.