Science and the bible

[Return of Too Many Daves]

"You could do a randomised, controlled trial on almost any intervention you wanted to assess: comparing two teaching methods, or two forms of psychotherapy, or two plant-growth boosters - literally anything. The first trial was in the Bible (Daniel 1: 1-16, since you asked) and compared the effect of two different diets on soldiers' vigour. Doing a trial is not a new or complicated idea, and a pill is the easiest thing to test of all."

Interesting I thought.