[ExI] Psi in a major science journal, J. Personality and Social Psychology

[Damien Broderick]

On 10/20/2010 3:30 PM, Isabelle Hakala wrote:

> I *did* read the paper, at least through the end of the first
> experiment, and honestly, unless they post the CODE for the program,
> there is no way to know if there is a cheat involved.... Since the program chooses the placement of the
> picture AFTER the person inputs where they feel it will be, that could
> be RIFE for cheating.

Where does this hermeneutics of suspicion cease? Suppose I obtained the 
code for you, what would you do with it? (Especially since you gave up 
after reading only part of the formal paper.) And if you examined it 
closely and found it acceptable, how would you know that some evil 
scientist hadn't just *pretended* to use that code while really just 
typing out 65 pages of invented results (John Clark's default claim) and 
sending them off to gullible editors and referees, for whom careful 
scrutiny is apparently a totally new concept.

I'm serious. What would satisfy you? What *could* satisfy you in this 
instance?

Damien Broderick