[extropy-chat] Re: Damien grants psi evidence

[Mike Lorrey]

--- John K Clark <jonkc at att.net> wrote:

> 
> 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!

That does sound fishy. What it needs, though, rather than dismissal, is
for someone who is an avowed skeptic to replicate the exact same
experiments. That is what a real scientist would do.

=====
Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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