Chris Zell <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you accept Cold Fusion as real, I would be skeptical of these continual > efforts to perfect reductionist materialism as a viewpoint. I do not understand this comment. Cold fusion is based entirely on reductionist materialism. That is the only reason we have to believe in it. > Being critical of placebos is straining at gnats. > I am not critical of them. As far as I know, based on recent research, there is no evidence they exist. That's all there is to it. They might exist. I do not know of any theoretical reason why they shouldn't, given the complexity of biology. But there is no evidence they do exist. A placebo appears to be exactly the same as no treatment at all. That isn't surprising. - Jed
