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Originally Posted by Chris Noble  Morphic resonance can explain everything. If the efficacy of a drug improves with time then morphic resonance predicts this. If the efficacy decreases then morphic resonance predicts this too.
This is the beauty of a content free theory. It can predict anything. The accuracies of the predictions increase dramatically if you know what the results are before you make the predicitions. |
Unfortunately, this same accusation can easily be levelled at natural selection. If a certain bird evolves a longer tail, it helps it to fly better, if it evolves a shorter tail, maybe it makes it less obvious to predators....
It is indeed an unsettling fact that responses to drugs and other treatments vary over time - naively you would not expect this. If the placebo effect has been avoided, then either the data collection is somehow faulty, or there has to be some sort of memory for the effect to change with time.
David