(April 18, 2014 at 5:05 pm)Coffee Jesus Wrote: Either way, your reasoning has holes in it. Just because an effect is detectable, that doesn't mean we will detect it. As the magic molecule effect would technically be detectable even though you suspect that "it would never fucking be detected."
There would never be a reason to suspect its existence.
It would not be detectable unless one could identify and isolate what water contained a magic molecule and what didn't.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.