[extropy-chat] Bayes, crackpots and psi

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:> 
> It gets worse. As the evidence accumulates, the two camps will not
> only fail to reach consensus but actually be driven further apart -
> propelled
> by their different views about the LR. And worst of all, there is no
> prospect of such a consensus unless the two sides can agree about the
> cause of the data.

ESP isn't the only thing in this arena. Cold fusion research has been
piling up impressive results for several years now, results which are
irrefutable, in their production of helium isotopes, continuous excess
heat, etc.

What opposes both of these areas of research is intitutional power,
statism, pure and simple. Both areas of research bode ill for the
centralization of power: if ESP is eventually developed into a real
means of communication, it would be outside the control of the state.
If cold fusion puts independent power production in the hands of
average individuals, that would put them outside the state's control of
the energy industry. 

Energy, and communications, two areas the state believes it has not
only the right, but the ability, to control. These areas of research
threaten that control.

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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) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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