>some of these papers were successfully replicated, so juxtaposing them to the ones that have not been replicated at all given the title of the page feels a bit off. Not sure if fair. I don't like Giancotti's claims. He…
>Randi dedicated his time and energy to debunking shysters. A lot of people informally call Randi himself a "shyster." But if you mean "shyster" in a legal sense, the only "shyster" Randi spent time and energy on was…
>People are extremely likely to upload footage they think is a real UFO. There isn't a shred of physical evidence for UFOS Is there some central repository of alleged UFO evidence that every single human with a camera…
>that's not how a scientist defines irrationality. ... >In discussions about, for example, dark matter, I am delighted to hear that you are such an expert in how scientists define things. Can I safely assume your…
>If UFOs were actually real we would have have a lot of footage of them like we have for everything else that's actually real. Who is the "we" with access to everyone's video recording footage? I don't have access to…
>If any of this stuff worked, there would be commercial applications by now Criticism A: Lots of people claim to have made money off dowsing/clairvoyance for mineral exploration. Debunking them is nontrivial. McMoneagle…
>Randi dedicated his time and energy to debunking shysters. That's not how I see Randi. I see him as a profoundly dishonest person who claimed to be doing debunking when in fact he was not. Debunking is great, but it…
I don't know whether IONS is mainstream; it is not a university. It is at: https://noetic.org/about/origins/ Rupert Sheldrake is certainly not mainstream, but he has earned quite a few academic qualifications:…
>Scepticism is not the psychological disposition to treat the increasingly implausible with the same equanimity as the increasingly plausible. Okay, maybe that is a fair description of skepticism, but you're stating it…
>some of these papers were successfully replicated, so juxtaposing them to the ones that have not been replicated at all given the title of the page feels a bit off. Not sure if fair. I don't like Giancotti's claims. He…
>Randi dedicated his time and energy to debunking shysters. A lot of people informally call Randi himself a "shyster." But if you mean "shyster" in a legal sense, the only "shyster" Randi spent time and energy on was…
>People are extremely likely to upload footage they think is a real UFO. There isn't a shred of physical evidence for UFOS Is there some central repository of alleged UFO evidence that every single human with a camera…
>that's not how a scientist defines irrationality. ... >In discussions about, for example, dark matter, I am delighted to hear that you are such an expert in how scientists define things. Can I safely assume your…
>If UFOs were actually real we would have have a lot of footage of them like we have for everything else that's actually real. Who is the "we" with access to everyone's video recording footage? I don't have access to…
>If any of this stuff worked, there would be commercial applications by now Criticism A: Lots of people claim to have made money off dowsing/clairvoyance for mineral exploration. Debunking them is nontrivial. McMoneagle…
>Randi dedicated his time and energy to debunking shysters. That's not how I see Randi. I see him as a profoundly dishonest person who claimed to be doing debunking when in fact he was not. Debunking is great, but it…
I don't know whether IONS is mainstream; it is not a university. It is at: https://noetic.org/about/origins/ Rupert Sheldrake is certainly not mainstream, but he has earned quite a few academic qualifications:…
>Scepticism is not the psychological disposition to treat the increasingly implausible with the same equanimity as the increasingly plausible. Okay, maybe that is a fair description of skepticism, but you're stating it…