Originally Posted by
Conley
Again, I believe you are generalizing scientists. They're human and thus have all the same flaws, hubris, ignorance, etc.
I cannot prove the existence of prayer, nor can I prove the existence of God.
Science could prove that prayer doesn't work if it accounted for every case of healing. It does not.
A true scientist would say that when one cannot rule out a potential cause the possibility must be considered, however unlikely. Even the basis of so many studies are predicated on the five percent rule, that p < .05 and that there is a greater than 95% chance the null hypothesis should be rejected.
Drug companies love that law, because they can test a pill for twenty treatments (depression, smoking cessation, appetite suppresent, etc.) and it will be proven effective for one of those twenty just by virtue of the laws that science has made. There are many such standards in the scientific community which don't hold up as air tight on closer inspection as many would have you believe.