Happy Psience Quest anniversary!

I think skeptics are really, really important to have in the forum proper. I actually wish we had more to balance things out a bit. It helps keep things from becoming an echo chamber and helps all sides catch potential mistakes or generally help each other out with finding information and such.

I agree that a more balanced discussion would be useful. Personally, my favourite kind of interaction is to hammer out ways to investigate these phenomena after peeling away the influences of wishful thinking, chance, and getting fooled (by oneself or others), in order to get a handle on their nature. It's difficult to suggest that these issues be addressed without also leaving the impression that that's all there is to them, though. And I suspect that is why we see so much pushback towards any skeptical voices.

The skeptical part of the forum is less interesting as it seems to mostly involve the erection of straw men.

Linda

Now I'm contacting the Parapsychological Association once again, to learn about the status of my proposal to add a link to our forum to their website - together with the already-existing link to the Skeptiko podcast and forum:

https://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-p...ence-quest

If they agreed, it would be a great birthday present to the forum! If not... well, it would be, at least, a good attempt!

Congrats on the first year, and thanks to those posting regularly. They make this forum a great source for news about parapsychology.