[ExI] A paranormal prediction for the next year

[Tomaz Kristan]

The total induction can be applied to your prediction, John!

It follows from this:

> PS: I am also confident I can make this very same prediction one year
from today.

So in fact it's a prediction for the whole future, not only for the next
year!

(Still valid, I guess.)



On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 5:49 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ​> ​
>> I agree with your prediction,
>
>
> ​
> I further predict
> ​ ​
> a research paper
> ​ ​
> WITH
> ​ ​
> positive psi results
> ​ ​
> 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.
> ​ ​
> I further predict that despite this positive buzz at the checkout lane not
> one entrepreneur will start a billion dollar ps
> ​i​
> startup company in Silicon Valley.
>
> ​> ​
>> because if a research paper with
>> ​ ​
>> positive psi results is submitted to Nature or Science it won't be
>> ​ ​
>> published, regardless of the quality of the research. Such is the
>> ​ ​
>> power of political correctness and enforced consensus.
>>
>
> ​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.
>
> 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
> ​ that way then tough.
>  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.
> ​
>
>  John K Clark
>
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