Paranormal phenomena

[Paul Stevens <PSTEVENS@afb1.ssc.edinburgh.ac.uk>]

#Kate belives in some very silly things. 
---> In your opinion...
#Kate is not a scientist. Kate is not a philosopher. Kate writes 
#songs. 
---> Which means we can only know that she's *interested* in thes 
phenomena, not that she *believes* them

#And as the Dutch videos clearly show, Kate is an absolutely 
#*dreadful* magician, the single most important skill in testing 
#"paranormal phenomena". 
---> Only when dealing with phenomena that can be faked. Not very 
useful when dealing with some of the phenomena that are 
currently investigated in parapsychology. Nor is it the single 
most important skill. Randi may be a good magician, but he's too 
theatrical to be a scientist.

#James Randi still has his $10,000.
---> Which challenge he's changed to exclude the Ganzfeld ESP 
experiments (i.e. the ones which seem to be showing 
replicable results). 

    Sorry to go on with a subject that's somewhat off-topic, but 
sweeping statements of this sort annoy me :)

        - Paul                        
                             Chris Williams of
                             Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago
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(his)
                                 vickie@njin.rutgers.edu      
(hers)
                                   katefans@chinet.chinet.com 
(ours)