[ExI] A paranormal prediction for the next year

[Colin Hales]

I saw the 1st posting of that message. ��. Here we are in 2025. Reasoning
and evidence are as much under siege  as they were 18 years ago. More so.
Truth itself has the boot of the toxic ignoramus on its throat.

On Wed, 1 Jan 2025, 9:25 am Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat, <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> As John K Clark has been banished from this list, and I feel that his
> annual paranormal prediction is an important message for all those who
> consider themselves to be rational, I'm posting this in his place. The
> message shouldn't be necessary, but sadly, it still is, for the
> eighteenth year running:
>
>      ==============
>
>      One year ago I sent the following post to the list, I did not
> change one word. One year from now I intend to send this same message
> yet again.
>
>      ==============
>
>      Happy New Year all.
>
>      I predict that a paper reporting positive psi results will NOT
> appear in Nature or Science in the next year. This may seem an
> outrageous prediction, after all psi is hardly a rare phenomena,
> millions of people with no training have managed to observe it, or claim
> they have. And I am sure the good people at Nature and Science would
> want to say something about this very important and obvious part of our
> natural world if they could, but I predict they will be unable to find
> anything interesting to say about it.You might think my prediction is
> crazy, like saying a waitress with an eighth grade education in Duluth
> Minnesota can regularly observe the Higgs boson with no difficulty but
> the highly trained Physicists at CERN in Switzerland cannot.
> Nevertheless I am confident my prediction is true because my ghostly
> spirit guide Mohammad Duntoldme spoke to me about it in a dream.
>
>      PS: I am also confident I can make this very same prediction one
> year from today.
>
>          John K Clark
>
> --
> Ben
>
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