TheSir
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Your attitude is understandable, yet does not fall within the definition of open-mindedness. Letting your behavior be dictated (and limited) by pre-existing scientific data is as close-minded as any behavior can get, considering how finite our cumulative scientific understanding of the world is.Its not. I need to see that a claim has been tested: that it has been replicated and measured and there is real cause-effect. "If you have a line in the middle of your tongue then X". This needs data to back it up, data as in studies with a as many samples as possible and all reasonable scientific measures to track such claim and so on.
Open-mindedness, on the other hand, would be to assume that the hypothesis is correct and use that as a basis for an experiment or two. In other words, open-mindedness is to actively apply the scientific method in your own life, rather than to depend on the fruits of the scientific method as applied by other people -- at which point we're no longer talking about science as much as cult behavior (cults are not really known for their open-mindedness, are they?)