What, pray tell, is the chemical that can bend spoons without eating the flesh off your fingers? A quick google of the terms "Geller Spoon Bending Chemical" revealed nothing. Many are so sure that Geller's spoon bending feat is a trick (and I'm not saying that it's not), but they can't say how it's done.
The point I am making is simply this: Many people are SO sure that Rossi is a fraud, yet they can not say exactly How Rossi is doing this alleged fraud. (Does this remind you of Mary Yugo?) That is what differentiates a true skeptic from a pseudo-skeptic. You see, a true skeptic can not explain the results he sees so he keeps an open mind. A pseudo-skeptic can not explain in his mind the results, therefore, in his mind, since he can not explain it, must be a fraud. The assumption undergriding a pseudo-skeptics attitude is that he understands everything there is to understand about the subject, therefore whatever he does not understand must be false. This of course is the sad state of attitude prevailing in modern science nowadays. Jojo ----- Original Message ----- From: Guenter Wildgruber To: Guenter Wildgruber ; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 7:14 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: ECAT 600 C Operations A (psycho)analysis of Rossi/DGT or an exercise in the theory and practice of (self-)deception. There is some LENR effect, I am sure. This just as a disclaimer. We all can bend spoons,right?, But Uri Geller did it better. Why? He had a magic sauce. Interestingly enough Feynman met Geller, and had to say this: ... I also looked into extrasensory perception, and PSI phenomena, and the latest craze there was Uri Geller, a man who is supposed to be able to bend keys by rubbing them with his finger. So I went to his hotel room, on his invitation, to see a demonstration of both mindreading and bending keys. He didn't do any mindreading that succeeded; nobody can read my mind, I guess. And my boy held a key and Geller rubbed it, and nothing happened. Then he told us it works better under water, and so you can picture all of us standing in the bathroom with the water turned on and the key under it, and him rubbing the key with his finger. Nothing happened. So I was unable to investigate that phenomenon. ... --> 'Cargo Cult Science' Actually Feynman did not figure out what Geller's trick was, but it was one, which later on was found to be some chemical treatment of his spoons, which Geller did not seem to have at hand when Feynman visited him. Now Geller is still a celebrity in some circles, whereas Feynman is known to some physics geeks and folks eg interested in the analysis of the Challenger-catastropy, where he applied common sense and some basic principles. No quantum magic. Not so spectacular, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster As said. A cautionary tale. Hope I am wrong. Guenter
