People willing to do self-experimentation is good, but most “bro science” is people who have zero ability to interpret scientific papers latching on to some extremely weak piece of research. A good example is the concept of “soy face” - you’d need to be eating kilos of soya a day for it to have any impact on your sex hormone levels. It’s a junk idea. If you look at a picture of a man opening his mouth in a photo (which I sometimes do because I can’t smile convincingly on camera) and think “soy face” then it’s a flaw in your model of the world - it’s not helping you understand reality at all.
People willing to do self-experimentation is good, but most “bro science” is people who have zero ability to interpret scientific papers latching on to some extremely weak piece of research. A good example is the concept of “soy face” - you’d need to be eating kilos of soya a day for it to have any impact on your sex hormone levels. It’s a junk idea. If you look at a picture of a man opening his mouth in a photo (which I sometimes do because I can’t smile convincingly on camera) and think “soy face” then it’s a flaw in your model of the world - it’s not helping you understand reality at all.