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struggle4progress

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7. Actually debunking scammers is an excellent activity

Reply to longship (Reply #6)

Sat Sep 3, 2016, 08:05 PM

Sep 2016

As a child, I got great pleasure and insight by reading accounts (say) of spiritualists exposed as using cheesecloth on long knitting needles to fake "ectoplasm" or how Robert W. Wood discredited Blondlot's N-ray claims

But, unlike the article in the OP, those were actual (and convincing) investigations, not philosophical ramblings

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Is It Possible to Measure Supernatural or Paranormal Phenomena? [View all] Warren Stupidity Sep 2016 OP

No. rug Sep 2016 #1

Why not? Lordquinton Sep 2016 #15

Because it doesn't exist. AtheistCrusader Sep 2016 #16

Well, yea. Lordquinton Sep 2016 #18

good article beergood Sep 2016 #2

It is, as is Sean Carroll's book, on which Shermer's essay is based. Warren Stupidity Sep 2016 #3

I did, warren. He answers the question by denying the premise. rug Sep 2016 #4

It still doesn't understand. Warren Stupidity Sep 2016 #10

And you remain as passive-aggressive as ever. rug Sep 2016 #11

QED Warren Stupidity Sep 2016 #12

It's sad to see this silly stuff in Scientific American struggle4progress Sep 2016 #5

SciAm has been at the forefront of debunking this crap for many decades. longship Sep 2016 #6

Actually debunking scammers is an excellent activity struggle4progress Sep 2016 #7

We'll, let's start with his final paragraph. longship Sep 2016 #8

If you are going to assert that a supernatural force exists, a force that can act on particles Warren Stupidity Sep 2016 #9

Coincidence? Cartoonist Sep 2016 #13

That is awesome. longship Sep 2016 #14

Of course not. trotsky Sep 2016 #17

If you could measure it, it'd be natural and normal. (n/t) Iggo Sep 2016 #19