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Thread: Ted Serios
Post: RE: Ted Serios
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Brian Wrote: (2017-09-07, 08:18 PM)
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I'm willing to stop but are there any sources that will be accepted by the proponents here that are not biased in their favour?
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This is a very important pa...
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Thread: Ted Serios
Post: RE: Ted Serios
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Chris Wrote: (2017-09-07, 07:39 AM)
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I have no idea which side of the argument is more accurate, but in his SPR encyclopaedia article, Stephen Braude writes:
"The primary source of this skeptical ...
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Thread: Ted Serios
Post: RE: Ted Serios
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E. Flowers Wrote: (2017-09-06, 01:07 PM)
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If they were hoaxed or not has little to do with "belief". Are you asking for critical examination or polling people?
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Brian Wrote: (2017-09-06, 09:25...
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Thread: Uri Geller - What do you think?
Post: RE: Uri Geller - What do you think?
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Laird Wrote: (2017-09-06, 03:43 AM)
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I suggest a reading of the article all the way to the end, after which you will find this:
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Yeh I did read that. The problem is that it is irrelevant... his...
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Thread: Uri Geller - What do you think?
Post: RE: Uri Geller - What do you think?
| I am not sure if anyone has seen it but there was a very interesting old article in the New Scientist about how Geller might have cheated in the experiments.
It is here:
http://www.urigeller.com...
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Thread: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
Post: RE: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
| https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Helen_Duncan_with_roll_of_cheesecloth.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Helen-duncan-cheesecloth.jpg
https://upload.wiki...
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Thread: 6.37 sigma replication of Dean Radin's double slit consciousness experiments
Post: RE: 6.37 sigma replication of Dean Radin's double ...
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deanradin Wrote: (2017-09-04, 03:47 PM)
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One of the reasons I hardly ever respond to critics in online forms is that it's not possible in this format to explain experimental results, analyses, hist...
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Thread: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
Post: RE: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
| Here is some more illustrations and photographs to how physical mediums did their tricks.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Harry_Houdini_spirit_hand.png
https://upload.wikimed...
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Thread: Leslie Flint
Post: RE: Leslie Flint
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Pssst Wrote: (2017-09-03, 10:27 PM)
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I once read in Wikipedia that said Jesus was a Pleiadian with no sexual organs.
I immediately believed since, by gosh, it was in interview. On Wikipedia. Y...
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Thread: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
Post: RE: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
| Here are some different photographs from physical mediumship.
Left is Stanisława Tomczyk a polish medium and right is magician William Marriott who replicated her feats by natural methods (invisibl...
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Thread: Uri Geller - What do you think?
Post: RE: Uri Geller - What do you think?
| There is a big problem for proponents who believe Geller has genuine psychic powers. Geller has been caught in fraud, this is an undeniable fact. There are examples where he was caught cheating. As fa...
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Thread: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
Post: RE: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
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Ninshub Wrote: (2017-09-02, 08:48 PM)
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Let's say there weren't scientific controls, I still don't see how you've established these photos are evidence of fraud.
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Børge Michaelson is jumping in ...
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Thread: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
Post: RE: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
| Jim Smith has moved his original post to another section of the forum. This means he will not acknowledge any of my criticisms of his post. It is unlikely he will respond here again in this part of th...
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Thread: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
Post: RE: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
| Jim I noticed you have not responded in this thread to criticisms of your website. You copied your post to another section of the forum http://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-249.html (http://psiencequ...
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Thread: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
Post: RE: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
| Jim,
There are errors on your website. I believe you should correct them.
For example you wrote:
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As further evidence that Helen Duncan was falsely convicted of fraud, consider th...
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Thread: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
Post: RE: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
| Jim on your website you seem to make the argument that Helen Duncan was a genuine materialization medium and that Harry Price should not be trusted.
How do you explain the photographs of Duncan suc...
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Thread: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
Post: RE: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
| Here is one of my favorites.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Seance_table_rapping_trickery.png
It is a hammer head on a needle attached to the knee to levitate tables.
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Thread: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
Post: RE: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
| Some of you might find these old illustrations and pictures useful:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Joseph_Dunninger_Tricks_of_Mediums.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...
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Thread: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
Post: RE: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
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You should demand the same high level of proof from skeptics claiming fraud as you demand from people claiming evidence of paranormal phenomena. Sometimes people accept any accusation of ...
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Thread: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
Post: RE: Is physical mediumship fraudulent?
| Jim, are you arguing Helen Duncan was a genuine medium? She was exposed as a fraud by the London Spiritualist Alliance:
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By far the best illustration of irrational faith in a proven c...
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