Response to Skeptics' Guide Host, Dr. Steven Novella (Podcast)

[Venom]

Originally Posted by Ersby

Hmm, it's too easy to come up with any flaw, no matter how implausible, and put it forward as a possible explanation for the results/example of shoddy protocols.

It would have been really easy to control for this (see above). Sheldrake didn't do it because he's careless. That's it.

That point was made in the previous podcast, by Dr. Clive Wynne. Alex gave him one experience to comment onto. He did. And he said in substance: why didn't Sheldrake did this or that in order to have those easy controlled.

Sheldrake is careless. He does many experiments, but in some he's controlling one thing, and then in the other he control another thing, but not the first thing anymore, and so on.

About the phone, I mean I've done a few researchs in psychology. It would have been so easy to give them a paper stating that it was complitely forbidden for the subject to call home during the experiment, and then say it has done so in the description of his protocol.

But he didn't. Everybody is just assuming that the subjects didn't call home. But we have no way to know if it's true or not.

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Originally Posted by Ersby

Hmm, it's too easy to come up with any flaw, no matter how implausible, and put it forward as a possible explanation for the results/example of shoddy protocols.

It sure is. That's life when your experiment is based on eliminating all possible explanations based on the known senses, but yet you cannot enumerate all such explanations.

~~ Paul

[Venom]

Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

It sure is. That's life when your experiment is based on eliminating all possible explanations based on the known senses, but yet you cannot enumerate all such explanations.

~~ Paul

Life is unfair. But Sheldrake could ask Radin to sent him some good intentions (or a chocolate box).