At 11:23 PM 9/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
>4. The area is full of cheating.
Yes, cheating has probably occurred in studies of self-proclaimed psychics by
the psychics themselves. Parapsychologists themselves have acknowledged these
problems. However, since the thread is on the ganzfeld, are you implying that
cheating has also occurred in ganzfeld studies or other ESP laboratory studies
with unselected subjects? If so, I would like to know what evidence you can
offer for the above statement.
>Personally, I will never understand how someone of Bem's stature
>could participate in such a venture, nor how the editors of Psych
>Bull could permit such a fiasco.
By your statement below, Bem and the editors of Psych. Bulletin must obviously
be both, credulous and naive.
>Let us demonstrate humility about things that we truly do not
>know about, nor understand. But ESP and parapsychology is not
>one of those things and does not merit a so-called "open" mind,
>unless by "open" one means naive and credulous.
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