Prejudice, science, etc.

[Shin'Ar]

You create/have three rooms in an experiment. All three rooms are full of plants and all plants are clones and all plants are kept under the same conditions in a carefully managed way.

Room A is told of to the general public, which is then given a data feed to the room and told to try to heal this room of plants so they grow faster.

Room B is kept secret from the public but is healed by any priests /spirit healers that want to participate in this experiment.

Room C is control and is kept in total isolation for the duration.

Total plant mass + rates of growth etc followed for all plants and test repeated enough times to get if A/B and C are different.

Simple enough? That should prove no problem to anyone, plants only receive light/love and are the most receptive at growing towards it. Theory is that either A or B should grow faster than C. A should attract a degree of "sabotage" so be slightly less than B and both should be significantly bigger/better than C.

This should work as a experiment?

Science- experimentation by testing hypothesis and theory in an attempt to prove it factual, basing the credibility of assuming fact on continuing that experiment until such a time as one test proves it nonfactual.

In fact, science is basically diplomacy. Majority rules.

If a scientists does X number of experiments and gets the same results, at some point he begins to assume the hypothesis must be factual. Exactly at what point they decide to jump to conclusion eludes me however. Is it a hundred? A thousand or ten thousand?

And yet, all it takes is for one test to fail after the conclusion has been made to completely disprove the test.

so science is basically:

1000 successes = fact
1 failure = fiction


Science is a very essential piece of learning and understanding; as long as the scientists do not allow their bias to get in the way of their search for answers. As soon as a scientist begins to declare conclusions as though the sheer number of successes must deny the other possibilities, they have become the same as the priests and fundamentalists they so often ridicule.