Yes. Many trials will give the control condition a placebo or have a placebo condition. However, this is not possible for all experiments. The placebo effect is when nothing is really happening or given but the person feels good or things something is happening. This effect is so powerful that...
I don't see why some Christians would defend a group that's, apparently, sinful just for not believing in their god. Obviously, the thought of loving their neighbour is harder to put into practice for them, especially if they believe all the other stigmatising and dehumanising concepts in the...
You're POE'ing methods aren't funny. Your attempt to draw fallacious inferences to autism is used in a derogatory manner. Therefore, you are using autism in a derogatory way. It's intolerant and stigmatising to a group that has enough problems as it is.
Diderot was a deist, apparently, then become an atheist. However, this has to do with removing dogmatism and superstition, not god.
You didn't respond to my last post.
Why did you presume he's talking about War in the Vendée - Wikipedia?
These were all theists; they were deists.
"For Voltaire, the true God was the father of all men, and not only Christians. May this great God who is listening to me, this God who can surely neither be born of a virgin, nor be eaten in a piece of dough, nor have inspired these books filled with...