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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. |
I am not unhappy with that hypothesis, it is worthy of testing IMHO however it is Sheldrake's theory, it is up to him to define the limits of his theory and possibly wrong for me to stamp extra interpretations upon it.
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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.
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Well of course, ideally the prediction must be made first. Possibly the best way to test it, is indeed to make a prior prediction but others in experiment believe something else is being tested altogether.
For example testing a placebo 1 against a placebo 2 however tell the single blinded medical researchers that one of these is a esteemed drug with excellent results in prior (invented) trials, monitor the results. Then do double blind later, if the effect continues in the double blind stage, that is impossible in current scientific paradigm?
