Acwruecmp.79
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utzoo!decvax!cwruecmp!pearlmut
Fri Apr 16 21:08:32 1982
Re: mhuxh.393: Reply to the skeptics
I don't believe that anyone was denying the "possibility" of psi phenomina,
they were merely saying that they had seen no evidence of psi phenomina
whatsoever, and were therefore loath to accept such phenomena as gospel.
I, certainly, will not call you a "scientific heretic," whatever that is
supposed to mean, if you believe you have evidece of psi phenomena, I will
merely ask you to show it to me, and try to repeat it.
When people see things that they have no way of explaining, then new theories
are in order. On the other hand, when people have theories but no evidence,
research rather than flaming is called for. To date, and my (limited, I
admit) knowledge, there is not a single shred of hard evidence for psi
phenomena. Electricity does not refuse to spark in a laboratory. The
claim that psi phenomena only show themselves to people who already believe,
or only under un-controlled conditions, has as much validity as the claim that
the Loch Ness monster(s) appear only when there are no cameras or scientists
around. Nice, but unprovable.
Barak Pearlmutter
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