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Old 03-13-2008, 06:20 AM
Venom Venom is offline
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I listened to this episode and, well, Marc Beckoff said something like that "many anecdotal evidence is data" (quotation from memory, and in fact it was Alex quoting him) (meaning that many anecdotal evidence can according to him prove something), I knew for sure we where in the real of pseudoscience.

I mean, has I said before, I have a deep interrest about the ufo phenomena, and it's obvious when you're studying that field than you can have a looooot of anecdotal evidence, and it doesn't prove the extraterrestrial hypothesis. Why? Because humans are humans, and you have illusions, false memories, and so on.

I tought maybe for animals, but no. If it was true, the many sightings of Loch Ness Monster or Big Foot would be enough for proving the existence of it. And it doesn't.

So I think Marc Beckoff is completely wrong about that, and it's not the only thing. He's also wrong about the coming paradigme shift that psi-believers are waiting for so long (I mean, the spiritualist were already annoncing an imminent paradigme shift, so what, the soon-the-arrive shift is already more than 1 century old ).

Otherwise, some interresting stuff in this interview, but the way things are presentend are so simplistic sometimes, it gets on my nerves.

And by the way I hate when Alex finish his interview with some praysing like "this one a very nice and interresting interview" blablabla just because he's interviewing someone sharing his beliefs.

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