On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 08:20:42PM -0500, howardmarks wrote: > Well, in James Randi's case, he was saddened by the amount of fraud > done on innocent people who called themselves "psychic," [...]
I wandered around the website a bit. Interesting place and they seem sincere, from what I could gather in not very much time. What I would like to see is some kind of simple statistics, like number of claimants per year, in range of 1980-2015. Or description of one failed experiment (any one of those many supposedly performed). Could not find neither of the info. Do you have any idea if such information is available? I am not going to claim anything of course (and besides, they stopped receiving claims) but I easily become curious and I like looking at numbers. > So, to answer your question, Tomasz, subjects you suggested were not > part of what Randi pursued, although Randi did work with Dr Stephen > Barrett of Quackwatch, and accupuncture, and many claims of "natural > healing" or Chinese medicines would qualify for his million dollar > prize.... (not sure if the prize is available, as Randi retired 3-4 > years ago)... look at randi.org for details and his archives. > Cheers! Howard Marks The idea I have about those claimants and tests, is that some things cannot be tested - there simply is no good enough tech to make such tests right now. Or maybe there is another reason - I have no way to know if the reason would be technical or something else. Just as with my previously stated question about testing the existence of phenomenon called "romantic love". A lot of people claim it happens. But can it be tested in a similar setup that supernatural was being tested? Or any other setup. If not this, one can try to test for existence of goodness. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] ** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/20190527000008.GB17832%40tau1.ceti.pl.
