Acwruecmp.79 net.misc utzoo!decvax!cwruecmp!pearlmut Fri Apr 16 21:08:32 1982 Re: mhuxh.393: Reply to the skeptics I don't believe that anyone was denying the "possibility" of psi phenomina, they were merely saying that they had seen no evidence of psi phenomina whatsoever, and were therefore loath to accept such phenomena as gospel. I, certainly, will not call you a "scientific heretic," whatever that is supposed to mean, if you believe you have evidece of psi phenomena, I will merely ask you to show it to me, and try to repeat it. When people see things that they have no way of explaining, then new theories are in order. On the other hand, when people have theories but no evidence, research rather than flaming is called for. To date, and my (limited, I admit) knowledge, there is not a single shred of hard evidence for psi phenomena. Electricity does not refuse to spark in a laboratory. The claim that psi phenomena only show themselves to people who already believe, or only under un-controlled conditions, has as much validity as the claim that the Loch Ness monster(s) appear only when there are no cameras or scientists around. Nice, but unprovable. Barak Pearlmutter decvax!cwruecmp!pearlmut ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.