Efftup
Senior Member.
I love Psi stuff. When I was a kid I used to read up on UFOs, ghosts, Nazi flying saucers, psychic abilities and all sorts.It;s probably a good job the internet did NOT exist back then or I would have been fed a barrage of bullshit.
The thing with Psi abilities is that although technically they COULD exist, ( a thought is clearly a bit more complicated than just an electrical signal in the brain) there has Still been NO actual repeatable under controlled conditions proof that such a thing actually does exist.
The point about a lot of us being skeptics is NOT that we automatically try and deny anything that shows something we don;t like, but that we want some proper scientific proof.
I got a 50% success rate guessing callers to my phone earlier. so am I psychic?
I say no. My "test" was only 2 calls and the person I actually thought both calls were from had previously sent me a text reminding me to do something and I hadn't replied to the text. so from the CONTEXT and the time of the call, I could easily DEDUCE who the caller was, without having to rely on a psychic ability.
If you found the ONE person who did REALLY well at predicting who was calling in the Sheldrake tests and tested them over and over and they REPEATEDLY got 50%, then I would get excited about it and I expect the results would be published in a peer reviewed scientific paper, with the author INVITING people to try and shoot down the results. THAT'S how REAL science works. When Pons and Fleishman THOUGHT they had achieved cold fusion, although the media reported something else, they themselves invited others to try and replicate the results and also to falsify their own.
The thing with Psi abilities is that although technically they COULD exist, ( a thought is clearly a bit more complicated than just an electrical signal in the brain) there has Still been NO actual repeatable under controlled conditions proof that such a thing actually does exist.
The point about a lot of us being skeptics is NOT that we automatically try and deny anything that shows something we don;t like, but that we want some proper scientific proof.
I got a 50% success rate guessing callers to my phone earlier. so am I psychic?
I say no. My "test" was only 2 calls and the person I actually thought both calls were from had previously sent me a text reminding me to do something and I hadn't replied to the text. so from the CONTEXT and the time of the call, I could easily DEDUCE who the caller was, without having to rely on a psychic ability.
If you found the ONE person who did REALLY well at predicting who was calling in the Sheldrake tests and tested them over and over and they REPEATEDLY got 50%, then I would get excited about it and I expect the results would be published in a peer reviewed scientific paper, with the author INVITING people to try and shoot down the results. THAT'S how REAL science works. When Pons and Fleishman THOUGHT they had achieved cold fusion, although the media reported something else, they themselves invited others to try and replicate the results and also to falsify their own.
