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10 years of rule
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It took till this year for scientists to have the idea to use mri to track brainchanges in pregnancy.
Just imagine how many super basic observations we must be lacking.
Scientific thought is ancient but we barely scratched the surface in pretty much every field.
Here’s an idea science has yet to explore:
Bring in a bunch of atheists and give them a placebo painkiller that they know is a placebo. Then put their hands in ice water and record the pain response. Send the control group home, but ask the experimental group to believe as hard as they can in the Flying Spaghetti Monster for the next week. A week later, give everyone another placebo painkiller and another pain test. Hypothesis: intentional religiosity increases the strength of the placebo effect.
Faith might be like a muscle. And it might be possible to deliberately cultivate faith for beneficial purposes.
As an agnostic spiritual (non religious/non atheist) this would highly peak my interest.
Seem like it wouldn’t even be all that expensive.
The only hard part is getting the atheists to actually believe in the FSM. You might have to ask them to keep a prayer journal.
Mix of both really but that is a cool guide.
Blessed are the toolmakers
Look, we gave science a try for 10 years. It didn’t work out, so we’re just not using it anymore.
Has the anonymous asker considered they might be a cat?
It’s stairs we didn’t have before 2014. Everyone just used ladders.