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Originally Posted by skidoo  . I think it's disingenuos to present the SGU's visit to the psychic fair as representative of formal research by scientific skeptics. |
Which 'scientific skeptics' would these be? Who are they, what research have they done and where is it published?
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This is a false analogy. Neutrino detection has been reproduced many many times. Its statistical signal is anything but weak.
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I think the analogy is fine. The 'solar neutrino problem' was a major discrepancy between measurements for 4 decades. Most solar neutrinos have energies that are below the detection thresholds for the heavy water detectors, therefore one could have a contrived a 'noise' argument until more recent years. Better detectors of the last few years have allowed 0.01% of the neutrinos the Sun emits to be measured and these still miss 99.9% of the neutrinos emitted (apparently electron neutrino change into less detectable muon and tau neutrinos)