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Originally Posted by Chris Noble  As I have pointed out before this is incredibly deceptive. The protective effects of aspirin for heart disease were not and could not have been found by unguided trial and error. They were found because the pharmacological effects of aspirin were already well researched and understood. Aspirin blocks the formation of thromboxane A2 in platelets. This effect is not small. It is easily demonstrated.
It was entirely reasonable to hypothesize on this basis that low dose aspirin might protect against heart disease. This is the way that real science works.
The same thing cannot be said about any supposed "psi" effects. The source of these ideas is not through established science. These ideas come form the same place as beliefs in fairies and alien abductions. |
I did not mention aspirin, and Dean only used it as one example. Clearly, nobody is going to agree to take a daily tablet of any drug just as an experiment - without any evidence that it will do them good, or not do them harm - so there is no exact comparison here because evidence is required in order to justify the experiment in the first place - so maybe there is a bit of misrepresentation on both sides!
Think instead perhaps of those pioneer spacecraft that seem to be violating GR. The effect is minute, and there are no doubt all sorts of corrections to be made for light pressure, residual interplanetary gas, etc, but the effect is taken very seriously.
David