Comment on Researchers Find “Naming Of Allah” Prevents Certain Histological Changes in Slaughtered Broilers by Jurgen Ziesmann

To answer your questions 1.) Repeating the experiments and come to a different outcome … if you are not muslim, then here you have the reason why it did not work, as God knows you and does not respond to empty words … however if you are muslim it may cost you your life, as it shows that you are just faking your faith, otherwise God would have responded. As you only can lose, in either case you should reproduce it the way it has been done … select and chose your examples and make a statement without any basis exactly like this published “study”. 2.) Yes it is. I am absolutley in favor of testing any question a person has with scientific methods. Christians have tried to investigate if prayer for sick people works. I am not at all in favor for “censorship” of what can be asked. If the effectiveness of homeopatic medicines can be investigated, then also if religious rites change anything. I am against censorship and thought control.
3.) Yes, sholarly journals are a venue to publish the outcome of even such questions. However, the research done must be based on scientific standards. And here is the mistake of the paper … the research has been done and described in the most unscientific way possible. Peer review has not happened. Scientific standards like double blind testing and statistical analysis completely omitted. This manuscript should have been rejected by any journal that claims to be scholarly based on lack of follwing basic scientific standards. However, if scientific standards are followed, all questions should be allowed and it also should be possible to publish results. We cannot afford an institution of “scientific inquisition” – the freedom to think what you want to think and the freedom to investigate what you want to investigate is a much to high value.