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Originally Posted by eyemsougly  I agree that antipathy towards psi makes it impossible for hardline skeptics to get significant results by themselves but what is needed, and should be possible if psi is real, is to get positive results in joint experiments between skeptics and proponents, like Alex is trying to do. Hopefully in 15 to 20 years this debate will basically be settled. |
I hope that happens, but I suspect that any skeptic that oversees an experiment that produces the 'wrong' result will get pilloried by his peers if he endorses the result.
Sometimes I think the only reason people believe conventional science is because it produces various types of technology. Perhaps an army of dowsers looking for oil would change opinion more (assuming they got results)!
David