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Originally Posted by Larry Boy  Well, first of all, not having a scientific theory doesn't necessarily mean a phenomenon doesn't exist. We still have no sound scientific basis for a theory of consciousness, still we assume it exists (well most of us do). Second, parapsychologists do have some tentative hypotheses concerning psi, springing from the various reports that have been made of the phenomena during the centuries. Psi was not discovered by accident.
You can't expect a science in it's infancy, with minimal resources, to be as well-developed as a field such as physics or medicine. You also have to remember that if psi phenomena do exist, a natural explanation may lie far far away in the future, just as an explanation for continental drift came a long long time after the phenomenon was discovered.
To summarize, science isn't complete yet, and you can't expect it to be able to give answers to everything at this point. |
You don't seem to understand.
a) Aspirin was known to inhibit platelet aggregation via the inhibition of thromboxane A_2. In fact John Robert Vane was awarded a Nobel prize in 1982 for this discoverey.
b) Platelet aggregation was known to be a factor in heart disease and strokes.
This lead to the generation of the hypothesis that aspirin might provide protection against heart attacks and strokes.
This is the way that science works. You don't just pull ideas out of thin air. You build upon past research and move forward.
This is exactly the opposite of what occurs with "psi". There is no theory of "psi" that transparently generates predictions.