Re: Quackery Today

You get no argument from me that there are a number of things that science has not yet explained or on the need for further  investigation when it comes to many of these unexplained events. 

I am  however skeptical of such testimony because we humans are proven to be very bad observers, we suffer from selective memory, selection bias, we are susceptible to suggestions, we make spurious connections - we are just very bad judges of these things.   I would be reluctant to assume supernatural intervention and assume a natural (no pun) explanation.  As you so aptly put it, there is a lot that science has not yet explained.  Until proven otherwise, I am inclined to say that the connection to religion is coincidental, and this was a case of spontaneous remission, urban folklore, mis-diagnosis, there are dozens of possible explanations that don't involve invisible, powerful beings.  To me, not knowing has never meant "God"

I've always said that natural companies need to form an institute / foundation  to start funding research into natural cures and encourage universities to start making gov't grant applications to study these things.


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