Should we permit interviews on non-core subjects, esp AIDS/HIV?

Using this as a basis, we might as well all fuck off home!  

Really? Are you suggesting that all we talk about here is down to ignorance and susceptibility to ill-considered opinions?

I happen to think we can do better than that. 

Linda

Just to add... Bauer is one of the founders and leaders of the Society of Scientific Exploration, and has done a great deal to support the research in all controversial areas, including parapsychology.

I think most psi researchers worked with the Society of the Scientific Exploration one way or another. Thus, they worked with Bauer as well (at least indirectly). I suspect many of them consider him as a respectable peer and a good comrade in their anomalous studies. Does it make them "tainted" somehow?

On this, I leave this topic until the interview is ready.

Just to add... Bauer is one of the founders and leaders of the Society of Scientific Exploration, and has done a great deal to support the research in all controversial areas, including parapsychology.

I think most psi researchers worked with the Society of the Scientific Exploration one way or another. Thus, they worked with Bauer as well (at least indirectly). I suspect many of them consider him as a respectable peer and a good comrade in their anomalous studies. Does it make them "tainted" somehow?

On this, I leave this topic until the interview is ready.

He doesn’t seem to be listed in any senior position - do you mean he was a founder member? If not, why doesn’t he appear? Do you know?

He doesn’t seem to be listed in any senior position - do you mean he was a founder member? If not, why doesn’t he appear? Do you know?

He was one of the founders and Editor-in-Cheif of the Journal of the Scientific Exploration (JSE) for some time.

Nowadays, he gave up his administrative positions, yet he is still active as an author, publishing reviewes of books, papers in the JSE and articles in Edge Science.

He was one of the founders and Editor-in-Cheif of the Journal of the Scientific Exploration (JSE) for some time.

Nowadays, he gave up his administrative positions, yet he is still active as an author, publishing reviewes of books, papers in the JSE and articles in Edge Science.

Ok thanks.

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Ian suggested in post #142 that you could publish the interview in either Alternative Views on Science or Other Stuff. That's fine with me, and I'd suggest (but feel free to choose the other) that Alternative Views on Science is the better of the two - not that I consider myself the final word on this, so I hope that folks, especially founding members, and especially Ian, will show either by liking this post or responding favourably to it that they agree... or simply by not objecting to it!

That's my opinion too, and I'm completely fine with that.

If the topic had been the HIV-AIDS theory, I think it would have been better suited to CT. But let's not even discuss that unless we want to continue these meta conversations going on until the end of time - Vortex's interview as he's described it can perfectly go into Alt Views on Science.

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Should we reject discussion of the psychic healing and clinical parapsychology because psi skeptics are certain that they are dangerous?

Psychic healing would fit Psience Quest Interviews, as I think I've said already - clinical parapsychology probably also, but I don't really know anything about it. I'm gathering it has to to do with paranormal experiences, then in my view it would fit.

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Again, some posts discussing Bauer's HIV-AIDS theory have been moved to the appropriate thread. If you are not seeing it and think these posts are just disappearing, that means you haven't signed up to see the politics & conspiracy theory discussion sub-forums. You can do so by going to this thread.

Please ignore -- just checking if this ends up being posted -- my prior post apparently didn't.

Right. It did post. So was my original post blocked for some reason, or was there a glitch?