<div dir="ltr">The total induction can be applied to your prediction, John!<div><br></div><div>It follows from this:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">> PS: I am also confident I can make this very same prediction one year from today.</span></div><div><br></div><div>So in fact it's a prediction for the whole future, not only for the next year!</div><div><br></div><div>(Still valid, I guess.)<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 5:49 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Giulio Prisco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giulio@gmail.com" target="_blank">giulio@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div></span><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>I agree with your prediction,</blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><font size="4">I further predict<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>a research paper<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>WITH<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>positive psi results<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>WILL appear on a weekly basis in nearly every supermarket tabloid in the country, along with horoscopes, evidence of ancient aliens and flying saucers, predictions of Nostradamus, and most important of all diet tips from soap opera stars.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>I further predict that despite this positive buzz at the checkout lane not one entrepreneur will start a billion dollar ps<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">i</div> startup company in Silicon Valley. </font></div><span class=""><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>because if a research paper with<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>positive psi results is submitted to Nature or Science it won't be<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>published, regardless of the quality of the research. Such is the<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>power of political correctness and enforced consensus.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">That is the same lame excuse I've heard countless times in past years, and that is the same lame excuse I have no doubt I will hear next year, and the year after that, and the year after that, and the year after that, and the [...]. At some point a logical person has to ask himself if maybe just maybe the desire for something to be true (and there is no denying psi would be fun) has deluded yourself into believing it is true.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><font size="4">Look, over the last century respectable scientific journals have published experimental results in fundamental physics that nobody predicted and nobody has a explanation for to this day, like the violation of Bell's inequality, the singularity at the center of a Black Hole, neutrino mass and oscillation, the existence of Dark Matter and Dark Energy and the fact that we are completely ignorant about 96% of the stuff in the universe. The journals were delighted to publish all that because the existence of those things was overwhelming and if nobody could explain how it could be <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> that way then tough.</div> But you say that for some strange reason psy is different from any of those mysteries, you claim that even though the evidence for the existence of psi is rock solid not one respectable scientific journal will publish this extremely interesting fact about the physical universe because it's not politically correct. And you claim this worldwide conspiracy of silence that science has engaged in has been going on for centuries and will continue into the indefinite future. I think that claim is bullshit.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> John K Clark</font></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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