You have a belief that precognition and telepathy/psychic phenomena are
real - if one looks, using the scientific method, as Randi did, it is
impossible to find anyone who can actually perform under controlled
conditions that the claimant themselves sets as conditions of a test
(even if the test is statistical with the aim of getting a higher score
than random - like getting a 60-40 on predicting the flipping of coins,
to use a terrible example!).
The total failure of precognition hotlines to show precognition over a
couple decades - is quite strong evidence. One must make sure that one
uses hard evidence, not hear-say or testimonials.
Cheers! Howard
On 5/16/2019 5:13 AM, howardmarks wrote:
In fact, sir, I personally know Randi, having met him at events and by
telephone. He is totally NOT a charlatan. He won the MacArthur Prize
for his tireless work on exposing charlatans such as Uri Geller
(MacArthur Prize usually given to prospective young science students,
Randi received it in his 50's), was an amateur astronomer early in his
life, and has a great knowledge of the scientific method. No, he
doesn't have a degree in the sciences. Yes, he had many advisors who
were/are impeccable scientists and professionals. Sorry, you are wrong
about Randi.
Cheers! Howard
On 5/16/2019 2:44 AM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote:
Randi is a charlatan. He (and the people the cite him) has no
understanding whatsoever about how science works. He wants from
people to do instant magic. But that's not how science works. Even
the CERN scientists are making billions of collisions in order to
obtain 1 Higgs boson. If it were for Randi, he would never awarded
any Nobel prize for the Higgs discovery, because it was not a
shocking amazing soap opera performance. Lots of people have
demonstrated to this charlatan telepathy and precognition, but he
refused to acknowledge them, because they were not straight out
hollywood display.
On Thursday, 16 May 2019 05:03:54 UTC+3, howardmarks wrote:
There have been a number of "precognition hotlines" on the
internet in the past, with thousands or millions of hits - _but
their "batting average" is flat ZERO_. One such website is
http://thepremonitions.com .
James Randi, now retired (randi.org), had a million dollar
challenge for any type of paranormal and/or psychic phenomena
(such as telepathy, etc.), out for 25 years - only condition on
getting the money (or giving it to one's favorite charity) was to
actually PERFORM. Many many people said they could perform, but,
under impartial conditions (even with only cameras as observers
if that was the condition) = _their batting average was also ZERO_.
But, hey, belief has no place in phenomena, unless one is
studying why people believe things.
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