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Originally Posted by Yafi  |
After reading this, i don't see how it is possible to take this guy seriously. After all he claims to be an expert in parapsychology and an actual scientist! So i think it is absurd if we don't. Yafi i think you need some clarification on how credible your sources are, and for next time please ensure they are the opinion of REAL scientists, as you like to put it.
The subject of the book is psi research, that is research concerning telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition. Radin claims that these phenomena are real and in the book he presents the evidence, which he thinks proves this.
The first thing to note about this book is that it aren’t a scientific report. It is readable by people without scientific training, though there are some technical words, so if expressions such as "confidence interval" make your head ache, then you might want to have a glass of aspirins within reach before opening this book.
The accessibility of the book has the consequence that the readers isn’t given details, and therefore actually can’t judge for themselves, whether the results that Radin claims have been obtained are for real or not. This means that it’s of paramount importance that the reader can trust that Radin reports everything truthfully and completely.
This led me to consider how trustworthy a reading of the book makes Radin seem. I’m just a layman in this connection: I probably know a bit more about statistics than the average working Joe, but I know way less than Radin. I’m not especially knowledgeable about psi research either, but a couple of the books on my bookshelf mentions the subject, and I’ve read a bit about it on the web.