(2019-12-23, 01:47 PM)tim Wrote: Raff said > "as this looks like a place where a skeptic can bring out all his ideas."Sorry but it look clear to me that I expressed the possibility of fraud as very remote. It surely isn't the first thing that comes to my mind.
Throwing any old "it could be", "it might be", "she's lying", "he's biased" is not sound scepticism, Raff. There aren't too many genuine sceptics left (IMHO) but they at least try to come up with reasonable objections. Laurin Bellg has no reason to lie but of course that still doesn't prove anything.
But she may just be wrong or naive, maybe both. Being naive is something I've noticed a lot in proponents, in particular regardin Eben Alexander's NDE. When skeptics "debunked" the rainbow event, proponents refuted it basing themselves on the word of Eben's family. I mean, is there a possibly more biased view than that of his family? If want to have proofs, we need to gather it from neutral witnesses