--- In [email protected], "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@...> wrote:
> 
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> 
> > > Set James Randi on it, he'll design the study to end them all 
> > > but he's looked at it and concluded it isn't worth the effort.
> > 
> > Oh, that's impressive.
> 
> You sneer? At least someone has spent their life trying to show
> paranormal beliefs are just that, beliefs. And showed it rather
> convincingly I might add.

You certainly would think so from how he touts himself.
I could tell you a few things, but it's too much trouble.

> > No matter how elaborate a study he designed, he couldn't
> > falsify the ME.
> 
> Not to you I would say, for the rest of us he could show, like 
> he has for all types of woo-woo that it doesn't stand up to 
> scrutiny.

I could have sworn I gave you a link to the Wikipedia
entry on falsification so you could inform yourself
about it.

> > > It would be down to the TMO to prove it and I think they've
> > > tried with the IA course and the yagya programme and all the
> > > many thousands of new meditators and sidhas. The coin has been
> > > tossed a great many times now.
> > 
> > But there are still a bunch of those apparently black
> > swans (switching metaphors on you).
> 
> Maybe they only appear black if you have rose-tinted
> spectacles on?

I really had thought you might be up for a good debate,
but I see you aren't, so this is it for me.

> > What's this about "many thousands of new meditators and
> > sidhas"? That will come as a surprise to some of the other
> > TM critics here.
> 
> So what? According to the TMO it's a new dawn in numbers of
> TM practintioners. Fairly sure we would see something by now,
> unless......
>


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