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Originally Posted by epicmoo  Is it possible to devise a true test to prove or disprove IM? |
Sure. For example, you could deceive a bunch of teachers into believing their students are much smarter or much stupider than their students really are (based on IQ scores). Eight months later, you could measure the students' IQ scores again, and see if the teachers' beliefs had any effect on their IQ. This is the experiment done by Harvard professor Robert Rosenthal. Go google.
Also, you could use a machine known as a random effect generator. Think of it as an electronic coin tosser. You then get people to try to use their thoughts to see if they can somehow influence the results of the machine. After many tries, you check the results and do a statistical analysis to see if the thoughts had any significant statistical influence. Google "Robert Jahn" and "Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research" and see.
Also you could ask people to think different types of thoughts about water samples. You could, for example, ask them to pray over the water, or think angry thoughts about the water, and so on. You then analyse the water samples using some freezing techniques in the lab, and you check whether the thoughts have produced any changes in the molecular structure of the water. Google "Masaru Emoto", "Dean Radin" and "water" and see.
Next you could do an experiment at the hospital. You get patients with quick similar kinds of injury (for example, they have similar kinds of flesh wounds on the breast, following breast cancer surgery, or they have broken the same kind of bone, eg the ankle). You divide the patients into two groups. Both groups receive the same kind of medical treatment, except that one group is also given hypnotic treatments, during which they think positive thoughts like, "I am healing really fast", "I am getting better and better so quickly". You then compare the recovery rates of the patients. To find out the results. google "Harvard Medical School", "Carol Ginades", "broken bones" and "hypnosis".
There are many others ......