I didn't say "scientific analysis by a world renowned forensic investigator is not enough evidence for" me. Don't you dare put words into my mouth.
First off, if you want to cite authority figures, you have to establish that their opinion is worth considering. The truth or otherwise of what they say is not dictated by their renown. What counts, all that counts, is their work. You presented their work as declaring victory. Bad Wolf already cast doubt on your equvocation of faith healing and the placebo effect, but I'll take the pitch if you like (I don't play baseball either).
If faith healing is nothing more than the placebo effect, then we're done here. Placebos, as I understand it, do have a role to play in conventional treatment of certain illnesses. To equate that with the claims of faith healers is not only farcical, it's also insulting to anyone who has ever suffered from or lost someone to life-threatening illness and injury. It's on a par with going up to a crash victim suffering from multiple lacerations and internal injuries, giving them two aspirin and telling them to walk it off and they'll feel better.
Faith healing is bullshit and costs lives.
I'll say it one more time: if what you present doesn't stand up to the pressures of examination even slightly, stop whining about it. Get better evidence. Or better claims.
First off, if you want to cite authority figures, you have to establish that their opinion is worth considering. The truth or otherwise of what they say is not dictated by their renown. What counts, all that counts, is their work. You presented their work as declaring victory. Bad Wolf already cast doubt on your equvocation of faith healing and the placebo effect, but I'll take the pitch if you like (I don't play baseball either).
If faith healing is nothing more than the placebo effect, then we're done here. Placebos, as I understand it, do have a role to play in conventional treatment of certain illnesses. To equate that with the claims of faith healers is not only farcical, it's also insulting to anyone who has ever suffered from or lost someone to life-threatening illness and injury. It's on a par with going up to a crash victim suffering from multiple lacerations and internal injuries, giving them two aspirin and telling them to walk it off and they'll feel better.
Faith healing is bullshit and costs lives.
I'll say it one more time: if what you present doesn't stand up to the pressures of examination even slightly, stop whining about it. Get better evidence. Or better claims.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
