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Originally Posted by Perig  In the past, those who defended the evidence for large scale psychokinesis have too easily allowed themselves to be put on the defensive. In my opinion, they have responded too timidly, or graciously, to their most vocal opponents, especially to those motivated more by the love of publicity than by the love of knowledge. However, I believe that the skeptic must be put on the defensive. The more evangelical of the lot inveigh against the forces of irrationalism. |
This is good stuff. As I said earlier it can sometimes be hard for the real researchers to respond in the strategic manner that is called for here when they have all of that research to do. Also, ideally, they should be doing research and not having to defend themselves against this skeptic movement that is not even really qualified (more often than not) to be attacking the experts in these less-well-respected areas of study. This gets to the point of why I think that we need an anti-skeptic movement whose sole purpose is the annihilation of the modern skeptic movement - and barring that at least provide an effective defense against the skeptic movement.