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Re: Legitimate rape

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 21 Aug 12 9:35 PM | 152 view(s)
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That's to say, to create science, you have to perform the studies using the methods which provide assurance that the results are accurate.

I'm afraid I doubt the Trobriand Islanders conceive a different way to other mammals. Call me conservative. I'd want to see the academic research.

However, I am not denying that belief can have some effects in particular circumstances. Quite the contrary. New medicine is always tested for its effectiveness against the impact of belief, aka the placebo effect. It is only considered effective if the results show the new medicine is more effective than the sugar pills.

But as far as I know, the desire to avoid pregnancy is not especially effective. Ask a teenager.


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Re: Legitimate rape
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Tue, 21 Aug 12 8:04 PM 		Msg. 09425 of 54959

Well, once again, we have a disagreement about what science is. Science changes based on testable evidence.

I daresay if you put a woman from the Trobriand Islands inside a test tube, she wouldn't become pregnant in the absence of a dollop of sperm. But as I said, I'm not planning on conducting the test.

Isn't your argument similar to a defence of credulity?

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