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by really? » 20 Jun 2010, 22:55
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by really? » 21 Jun 2010, 06:17
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by really? » 21 Jun 2010, 19:28
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by ProfWag » 21 Jun 2010, 22:54
If I may chime in, how's this for an example of an extraordinary claim: In 1950, if a person claimed that they could run a mile in less than 4 minutes, that would have been an extraordinary claim. If Roger Banister and Uri Geller just TOLD us that he could do it, that would probably NOT have met the evidence needed to support the extraordinary claim. It would have required a stop-watch and at least 2 "uninterested" people to verify it's extraordinary achievement. I don't know, maybe?
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by really? » 22 Jun 2010, 02:57
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by ProfWag » 22 Jun 2010, 04:36
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by ProfWag » 22 Jun 2010, 05:33
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by Indigo Child » 22 Jun 2010, 06:24
I think Winston has dealt with this common pseudoskeptical fallacy of extraordinary claims very well in the treatise. There is no such thing in science as an exordinary claim, because what is ordinary in science is basically what is the current understanding of the world. Heavier than air objects flying was extraordinary before the Wright brothers proved it was possible and since heavier-than-air objects flying is ordinary. Faster than sound travel was extraordinary before the advent of supersonic travel, since it is ordinary.
In neither case was a special(double) standard of science required to establish the extrordinary conclusion. The extraordinary became ordinary, just as previous ordinary things went from ordinary to extraordinary.
Paranormal sciences are no different. As long as they are using proper scientific methdology in order to their research, they are proper science and their results are just as valid as any other scientific investigation. Remote viewing has been proven by the standards of science. Move on and embrace it.
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by really? » 22 Jun 2010, 11:29
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by Indigo Child » 22 Jun 2010, 12:43
A blue elephant is no more extraordinary than a grey elephant. That is like the argument all swans are white, simply because we have only ever seen white swans, until we see a black a swan and it goes against the rule. The existence of a blue elephant requires as much evidence as the existence of a grey elephant requires to be established.
The scientific method is neutral to all claims. There are no value judgements in it of "ordinary" and "extraordinary" You collect data(method) and you analyse the results(results), and then you explain the results with the best hypothesis(conclusion). In the remote viewing experiments the same method is used. You collect data, in this case remote viewers attempting to identify a target by giving information on the target (blue, underwater, metal, machine, cold, oblong = submarine) You analyse the results and show that the statistical liklihood of you getting the target correct, say 1 in a million and you come up with the best hypothesis to explain it: the target was identified through ESP.
And there you go. You're done. You've proven ESP exists and you can move on. These experiments are decades old now and if we were living in a proper rational world, ESP should have been mainstream fact today. I mean seriously move on. Accept ESP exists .
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