Hey BD,
Something else to try and account for is the Macro-R phase growth. If people are coming off of a routine and switching to the Angion Method or using it during their rest phase they could be experiencing the growth they’d still see even if they didn’t perform the Angion Method.
Also, if someone was going into it cold, it would be best if they started measuring a week or two, or longer before commencing, so that they can learn how to measure and get an accurate reading before the experiment proper actually starts.
If it were true control conditions, you’d probably also need to give them a faux exercise to perform and have them measure and chart their results to see if it caused them to report and measure gains, and then have them switch to the Angion Method and see if more gains occur.
Obviously none of this is controlled conditions but it’s worth noting that the margins of error are so slim that it would warrant an extremely close monitoring and a strict adherence to a properly formulated exercise to get a reliable result.
I’d love for it to proven to work but to be honest, it just has all of the hallmarks of not necessarily a scam but a psychological phenomena. It wouldn’t surprise me if we’re in the midsts of a mass psychogenic event. Basically there’s just enough leeway for misinterpretation, placebo and errors of perception to create an ongoing string of false positives. Then the belief takes hold and the rest is academic.
Not trying to say Angion is a charlatan, a fraudster, or a scammer, just trying to say that at best he might be sincere but also sincerely mistaken as to the effectiveness of his method.
Until we have practitioners of the Angion Method practising nothing but the Angion Method and solely the Angion Method, over a period of years and demonstrating consistent, meaningful gains, then the best we can really say about the Angion Method is that it’s potentially good for erectile quality, even if only as a placebo.
Obviously then the problem with the above is that it’ll still be anecdotal evidence.
In the meanwhile it is interesting at least from a social and psychological viewpoint, to see this developing, and it is bringing people to the forum; I’d just caution against subscribing to “The Cult of Angion”, otherwise ultimately all of P.E. will probably come to be known as the Angion Method, with everyone having to perform at least a limited amount of “The Angion Method”, as a rite, as part of their routine, and we’ll all have to defect to “Angion’s Place .org”. ;)
