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Originally Posted by Chris Noble  Information leaking from one individual to another through non-physical means = anomaly. |
Well I think the usual implication of a "search for anomalies" is that any unexplained correlation is used as evidence of Ψ. Really, Ψ is not more an anomaly than radium was in the days before a theory of radioactivity.
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Originally Posted by Chris Noble But no science is as completely untestable as "psi". |
String theory is far more untestable than Ψ, which can be tested with a dog, a video camera, and a random number generator
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Originally Posted by Chris Noble
If a scientist claimed to have detected a gravity wave without decent evidence they would be criticised. If they did this via a press conference or a youtube video they would be pilloried or worse.
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I think if he reported that he had some preliminary candidate events, but was still studying them before publishing, absolutely nobody would bat an eyelid. Cern has made tentative announcements like that in the past without any problem at all.
BTW, Fleischman and Pons went rather overboard in their announcement, but not as overboard as the reaction against them. Even now - nearly 20 years on - there seem to be some evidence that some nuclear reactions are happening inside the Pd electrodes.
David