overed' these 'phenomenon.' (?NOTICE THE PATENTS ANYBODY?~;)
CHEER UP VOTEX! WE MADE HISTORY! OUR 'CONVERSATIONS' 'finally-duh' BROUGHT
THESE NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO LIGHT! . . . cool no!?! ~:)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:18:30 -0600
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Rules for Unconventio
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
wrote:
> At 07:55 PM 1/13/2013, James Bowery wrote:
>
>> As Norman Ramsey pointed out in his preamble to the DoE's original review
>> of cold fusion: "However, even a single short but valid cold fusion period
>> would be revolutionary."
>
>
> R
I would say categorically that Bacon warned against every conceptual error
made in cold fusion. I do not recall seeing one he did not describe. In the
sections I just quoted, let me list some of the people his words apply to,
in square brackets
He . . . rejects difficulties for want of patience i
Confirmation bias was described by Francis Bacon in Novum Organum (1620):
47. The human understanding is most excited by that which strikes and
enters the mind at once and suddenly, and by which the imagination is
immediately filled and inflated. It then begins almost imperceptibly to
conceive an
At 07:55 PM 1/13/2013, James Bowery wrote:
In behavioral psych, the term is "variable ratio reinforcement" for
the kind of reinforcement schedule, your refer to, that produces
long-persisting behaviors/models/beliefs. Pseudoskeptics would,
undoubtedly, like to point to that as an explanation f
At 07:43 PM 1/13/2013, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Martin Fleischmann expressed a view that you might say is the
opposite of this. He said "when you find an anomaly, it is the
easiest thing in the world to convince yourself it isn't real." Your
first instinct is to dismiss it. I think he meant that was
In behavioral psych, the term is "variable ratio reinforcement" for the
kind of reinforcement schedule, your refer to, that produces
long-persisting behaviors/models/beliefs. Pseudoskeptics would,
undoubtedly, like to point to that as an explanation for why cold fusion
researchers are irrational.
My theory predicts that many rainbows create their own clouds and
thunderstorms through atmospheric collapse and condensing in their vicinity
and the energetic particle orbiting through the elliptical arc of the
rainbow can weigh millions of tons (if you could weigh it). The rainbow
itself is the
Martin Fleischmann expressed a view that you might say is the opposite of
this. He said "when you find an anomaly, it is the easiest thing in the
world to convince yourself it isn't real." Your first instinct is to
dismiss it. I think he meant that was the first instinct of a trained
scientist such
At 05:18 PM 1/13/2013, James Bowery wrote:
So-called "confirmation bias" must have had some adaptive value. I
wonder what it was or perhaps even is?
Okay, let me guess. We are good at guessing. We might occasionally
even get it right.
Much human behavior is learned. We need to be able to c
So-called "confirmation bias" must have had some adaptive value. I wonder
what it was or perhaps even is?
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
wrote:
> This document by Bill Beaty is well worth reviewing, if the reader is not
> familiar with it.
>
> http://amasci.com/freenrg/**r
This document by Bill Beaty is well worth reviewing, if the reader is
not familiar with it.
http://amasci.com/freenrg/rules1.html
This doesn't just apply to inventors. Similar phenomena happen with
pseudoskeptics, and *who isn't pseudoskeptical* on occasion, at
least? A genuine skeptic does n
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