-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 11/25/99 4:32:46 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Professional skeptics are paid disinformation specialists.
> The most famous ones are "the amazing Randy" - a stage magician, and some
> fool named "Barrett" who is still trying to convince people that
acupuncture
> is "quackery"
> Shannon is generally beneath notice, yet seems to take great delight in
> spreading old and tired disinformation about homeopathy... oh well... guess
> he's gotta earn a few extra bucks a day for his viagra.
>
> Dave Hartley
> http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave
>
I don't know if Homeopathy is any good or not, never having studied it at
all, but I do believe that if people want to try it and some of them even
"think" it is effective and it "works" for them then it is a BIG THUMBS UP
from me! As fo the "Amazing Randi", he is much as you describe him and a
total waste of space besides, who spends all of his time "debunking"
so-called paranormal phenomenon etc. He frequently ignores and does not
report on evidence and statistical results that contradict his debunking
explanation. Even A.C. Clarke was chagrined with Randi when they looked at
dowsing and there was some statistical evidence that dowsers were able to
find water (well above chance in a controlled field study), but Randi ignored
those findings and declared ALL dowsing ineffective bugaboo based on another
portion of the test which had the dowsers try to find buried metals (which
they were no better than chance in being able to find). Randi represents
entrenched materialist science, refusing to see past the end of his nose and
suddenly going deaf, dumb and blind when evidence is presented that is not
within his paradigm.
That being said there is SCANT evidence for any of the phenomena that he
debunks, BUT that still does not warrant the automatic gainsaying of it all.
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