Mediumship or super-psi?

[Open Mind]

Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

Because the deceased was obviously Montague Keen. And Schwartz was so deeply involved with most of the people in the experiment that the coziness is palpable.

~~ Paul

'Coziness is palpable' ... is this a polite term for a conspiracy theory of fraud?

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Originally Posted by Open Mind

'Coziness is palpable' ... is this a polite term for a conspiracy theory of fraud?

No, I just think Gary Schwartz is a fool.

Gary knew Keen, Veronica, Dubois, and Susy Smith (one of the departed hypothesized co-investigators*). And he participated actively in the experiment himself. Really, it's just nuts. If anyone did this sort of thing in some other scientific research, people would just laugh and laugh.

~~ Paul

* Hardy har har.

[Open Mind]

Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

No, I just think Gary Schwartz is a fool.

Gary knew Keen, Veronica, Dubois, and Susy Smith (one of the departed hypothesized co-investigators*). And he participated actively in the experiment himself. Really, it's just nuts. If anyone did this sort of thing in some other scientific research, people would just laugh and laugh.

~~ Paul

* Hardy har har.

Better to laugh at other scientific research too then ... parapsychology has a higher percentage of blind trials than any other area of science

[hoggworks]

Originally Posted by Open Mind

Better to laugh at other scientific research too then ... parapsychology has a higher percentage of blind trials than any other area of science

Do you have any actual stats on that?

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Originally Posted by Open Mind

Better to laugh at other scientific research too then ... parapsychology has a higher percentage of blind trials than any other area of science.

If so, that would be because we can't actually find anything there by looking. Instead, we have to do lots of statistics and hope that something shows up, and then assume that something is psi.

Ooh, I'm so proud of parapsychology: It's nothing but lots of statistics.

~~ Paul

[Dogmatic]

Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

Ooh, I'm so proud of parapsychology: It's nothing but lots of statistics.

~~ Paul

This comment makes you look vastly ignorant about science as a whole.

Subtle effects are still real and still have resounding consequences.