Criteria For Interviewees

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I want to ask you about some further topics that I may choose for my future interviews. These topics include:

1) critical psychiatry and antipsychiatry,

2) Intelligent Design vs. Neo-Darwinism,

3) cold fusion / LENR,

4) Electric Universe and plasma cosmology.

I hope these topics are acceptable for interviews. Are they?

Hi Vortex,

I posted about this in the thread about Bauer:
http://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-41...ml#pid7568

I think none of those topic would fit Psience Quest. I think we want the Psience Quest brand to be associated primarily with extended consciousness phenomena (see the categories in that forum), not as an all-purpose alt-science forum. And that therefore interviews carrying the PQ name should reflect that. It's one of the ways we're differentiating ourselves from Skeptiko.

Personally - and I'm guessing the same would go for the other founders/admins, but we'd have to check - I don't have any problem with you or other members doing interviews on these other topics, but they would be under your own name, not the forum's, and would be included in the sub-forums where they might fit (Alternative Views on Science, Other Stuff).

We are obviously not happy at having to restrict or disappoint forum members who would be keen on making those interviews, but we are trying to create a distinct identity for PQ and the official PQ interviews should reflect that IMO.