[extropy-chat] Re: Damien grants psi evidence

[Dirk Bruere]

John K Clark wrote:

> "Damien Broderick" <thespike at satx.rr.com> Wrote:
>
>>  http://anson.ucdavis.edu/~utts/
>
>
> I went to the page you cited with the intention on reading the entire 
> thing
> but in the end I just glanced at it. I confess I totally lost interest 
> when
> I read the following:
>
> "There is little benefit to continuing experiments designed to offer 
> proof,
> since there is little more to be offered to anyone who does not accept 
> the
> current collection of data."
>
> In other words Jessica Utts thinks the proof that this phenomena actually
> exists is as good as it's ever going to get and in her opinion it's good
> enough. In my wildest dreams I can't imagine Faraday saying that about
> electromagnetism 150 years ago, or a scientist today at CERN saying 
> the same
> thing about a theory of particle physics that was far less radical 
> than ESP.
> When I read those words my baloney detector went off big time!
>
In other words there's no point rehashing the same old expts to try to 
convince the unconvincable - it's time to move on to new expts that may 
throw more light on mechanisms behinds psi phenomena..

-- 
Dirk

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