day no. 15,682 continued... be the control group

Leviticus 19:35–37

You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity. You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the Lord.

Judgment requires a standard. You need something which is set in order to judge anything else. Length, weight and number presuppose a zero against which to measure. Without a zero, measurement is meaningless. It is subjective slapdashery like the pain chart in the labor/delivery room. "I'm at a 6?" Maybe, maybe not.

Scientific experimentation is predicated upon hypotheses and an ability to reject the null hypothesis. If you cannot reject the null hypothesis, you cannot claim any particular effect. In order to produce data, you need variables that are controlled. In other words, you need to be able to isolate certain variables if you want to claim an effect of any one of them. You cannot say, "This does that," or "This is a that percentage like to do that," unless you have something to compare "this" and "that" to.

All that to say, the effectiveness of any medication or whacksination requires a control group. You cannot measure success or failure without something to measure said success or failure against. The trial requires a control group who does not receive the medication or whacksination in order to isolate that variable in order to make any observation or claim regarding its effectiveness.

In other words, be the control group. Science needs you. You cannot claim to believe in the scientific method, or more commonly stated in our culture "believe the science," and advocate for the elimination of a control group. To insist that every participant be equal in that regard is to make scientific statements regarding the results impossible. Science, as a gift from God, rightly understands just measures. Science, however, in the hands of men, is as unjust as anything else in the hands of men --- a power grab designed to get something from someone in order to benefit someone else.