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Thread: "Why I am no longer a skeptic"
Post: RE: "Why I am no longer a skeptic"
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fls Wrote: (2017-09-19, 12:57 PM)
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None of these cases were documented prior to feedback being offered. And they also, by and large, do not involve sense data obtained when this was impossible.
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Thread: Talking ETs
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Pssst Wrote: (2017-10-06, 10:35 PM)
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However, Basiago encountered something he knew was real and if that is so, then what was it? From whom? For what reason?
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Thread: Principles of Curiosity
Post: RE: Principles of Curiosity
| Well, I would just say two things.
It's true that some people misunderstand what the p value means (and occasionally some people who do understand it misdescribe it). But it does have a clear and s...
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Thread: The OBE. Good Goal or Playing With Fire?
Post: RE: The OBE. Good Goal or Playing With Fire?
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DaveB Wrote: (2017-10-05, 03:41 PM)
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So what do you think Graham Nicholls or the various people at the Monroe Institute are doing?
Aren't there two utterly different questions here:
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Thread: Federico Faggin on consciousness and physics
Post: RE: Federico Faggin on consciousness and physics
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Typoz Wrote: (2017-10-05, 06:48 AM)
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"TV has never been about anything other than ratings. "
Not sure I can agree there. TV is about promoting a worldview, trying to represent a particular drea...
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Thread: Commentary thread for tim's "NDE's" thread
Post: RE: NDE's
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2017-10-04, 12:04 AM)
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This presumes that there was some lesson that could be learned through such suffering (say a life as a paranoid schizophrenic with mental and physical hand...
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Thread: Principles of Curiosity
Post: RE: Principles of Curiosity
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malf Wrote: (2017-10-04, 12:32 AM)
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http://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/brian-dunning-is-the-%E2%80%9Cskeptical-thing%E2%80%9D-over-363.4019/
Dunning interview made it to air :)
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Thread: No Wonder Science Is Hopelessly Stuck
Post: RE: No Wonder Science Is Hopelessly Stuck
| Of course the typical closed-minded debunker will claim that each veridical case out of no matter how many in total absolutely had to be due to conventional explanations including fraud, faulty memory...
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Thread: No Wonder Science Is Hopelessly Stuck
Post: RE: No Wonder Science Is Hopelessly Stuck
| "Just a contemporaneous story.
Oops, I mean he was oxygen deprived,,,
or rather he was on hallucinogenic drugs.
Yes, yes,, that's it. It was the drugs."
I can't see how the 'sceptics' c...
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Thread: No Wonder Science Is Hopelessly Stuck
Post: RE: No Wonder Science Is Hopelessly Stuck
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jkmac Wrote: (2017-10-03, 11:50 AM)
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Absolutely.
His comments are so weak I can only assume he knows this, which demonstrates his insincerity.
Or he really doesn't see how flawed his thinki...
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Thread: No Wonder Science Is Hopelessly Stuck
Post: RE: No Wonder Science Is Hopelessly Stuck
| So one of Neil's arguments is that people see bright lights when they die because of operation table lights.
That's a pretty weak explanation, doesn't count all the people who die outside of a operati...
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Thread: No Wonder Science Is Hopelessly Stuck
Post: RE: No Wonder Science Is Hopelessly Stuck
| Come to think of it, the line about eyewitness testimony being unreliable, and therefore scientific advance being possible only when the telescope and the microscope were invented, is just as stupid. ...
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Thread: No Wonder Science Is Hopelessly Stuck
Post: RE: No Wonder Science Is Hopelessly Stuck
| It's funny when sceptics, in the course of pontificating about a critical approach to evidence, come out with a piece of nonsense they've evidently swallowed whole without even thinking about it - lik...
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Thread: What should forum policy be on defamatory posts?
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jkmac Wrote: (2017-10-02, 09:09 PM)
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She was NOT talking about what you were thinking... :LOL:
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She’d have to be pretty flexible. :LOL:
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Thread: What should forum policy be on defamatory posts?
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tim Wrote: (2017-10-02, 06:35 PM)
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"I have a very good friend from Ireland who informed me that it would be quite rude to use that word in mixed company there because it means something quite diffe...
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Thread: Federico Faggin on consciousness and physics
Post: RE: Federico Faggin on consciousness and physics
| This, on Spirituality vs Religion.
http://www.fagginfoundation.org/articles-2/a-conceptual-framework-for-the-union-of-science-and-spirituality-2/
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Religion, on the other hand, has ne...
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Thread: Peter Fenwick interview +others.
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Thread: Federico Faggin on consciousness and physics
Post: Federico Faggin on consciousness and physics
| I came across Federico's work via a mention of it on Bernardo Kastrup's forum.
Subsequently I investigated his thoughts on his foundation's web site (http://www.fagginfoundation.org/category/articl...
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Thread: How Are UFOs Related to PSI?
Post: RE: How Are UFOs Related to PSI?
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Steve001 Wrote: (2017-09-30, 07:57 PM)
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The point is how easy it is to be fooled even when one trusts their senses.
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Surely the scientific method, (observation of a pattern, collection of data...
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Thread: How can people evaluate scientific questions when they don't understand the science?
Post: RE: How can people evaluate scientific questions w...
| The only one of those suggestions in my original post that I think is completely worthless is the last one: "(6) We have just as much right to an opinion as anyone else, even if we don't understand th...
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