Please don't take HN threads into flamewar. You can make your substantive points without any of that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Or maybe not. The whole claim that yoga breathing can help cure all things is about as solid as the claim that rhodiola rosea is a miracle plant. Or chamomile. Lots of people will swear by it, but the scientific evidence is zero.

And tic tac toe is way easier to learn for beginners. I have done yoga in a serious manner for almost 20 years but I have never seen a clear path for learning pranayama. This may be a problem with the way yoga is taught in the West but I think Win Hof deserves credit for developing and publicizing an easy to learn and effective approach to breathing techniques.

Taking quite the liberty with the term “science” eh?

But then again, I’m a “stupid westerner”. The scientific method isn’t a western creation or anything like that…

Your wisdom and compassion shines through.