Reply #7: True, but... [View All]

[trotsky]

//While I am glad prayer has yet again been shown to be completely ineffective, I am bothered that we even have to waste money to prove it.//
This bothers you given the money we waste on other things?

I didn't say that. I said that this study bothers me. It ALSO bothers me that multimillionaires are endorsing shoes. But in that case, I simply don't buy the shoes.

//The default position should be that magic doesn't work, and its believers must shoulder the burden of proof.//
Well, yea... but if you don't test for it *how do you know it doesn't work*?

If you don't test for the existence of unicorns, how do you know they don't exist?

Or leprechauns?

Or pink elephants?

Or... or... or... ad nauseum until you've wasted years and millions "disproving" things that should be assumed NOT to exist unless proven otherwise.