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Originally Posted by Open Mind  Guys I've just suggested an placebo VS placebo experiment above that could monitor the effects....  '....testing a placebo 1 against a placebo 2 however tell the medical researchers performing single blind experiment that one of these is an 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? ...
The prediction would be the highly esteemed placebo beats the normal placebo in single blind, continues to work better than the non-esteemed placebo in double blind trials ......until researchers find out the drug was a placebo then, then the esteemed placebo decreases.
If that occurs, only something like Sheldrake's formative causation could explain it IMHO |
That's actually as good or better than most of Sheldrake's proposed tests. It is certainly several orders of magnitudes better and simpler than stuffing around with psychic pooches.
I still don't see precisely how this follows transparently from "Morphic Resonance" as it has not been described in a concise and consistent form. I'm not sure whether Sheldrake would agree as to whether "morphic resonance" in fact predicts this.