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Originally Posted by DysonSphere  Why should anyone take Randi's challenge seriously? If Randi won't take the existing data in parapsychology seriously what reason do I have to believe Randi challenge is genuine. We all know its not scientific. |
You should know than in science the Appeal to authority is not a valid agument. So I doesn't care if someone have ou doesn't have scientific training. I'm assessing the validity of the work beeing done. And what Randi does is much more convincing than what parapsychologists do.
Scientist don't take seriously why parapsychologists do because the evidence are not convincing. It's not a question of having a PhD or not... I know a lot of people with a PhD writing pretty stupid stuff...
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PS Please debate intelligently venom. That is: no personal attacks.
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Well, has this podcast is all about bashing the skeptics in general, I can agree on bashing the psi-belivers in general too. In that way, they won't be personnal attacks
Hey,
but Alex do personal attacks all the time: "Steven Novela is a denier", "Richard Wiseman is debunker", and so on. So why should I be more clever than he is...
After all, I'm a "dum" "close-minded" skeptic...
