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- From: swf@teradata.com (Stanley Friesen)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: PSI - summary of book review
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- Date: 21 Jul 92 02:49:41 GMT
- References: <23887@castle.ed.ac.uk> <92199.114042DOCTORJ@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
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- In article <92199.114042DOCTORJ@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> DOCTORJ@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Jon J Thaler) writes:
- |egnr76@castle.ed.ac.uk (A Kashko) says:
- |
- |> "Parapsychology: the controversial science" by Broughton.
- |> Any comments?
- |
- | For example, Broughton does not take a
- |position about Uri Geller's abilities as a psychic. His discussion of
- |Geller is largely an attempt to discredit James Randi.
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- This in itself is enough to discredit the book. Anyone who is credulous
- enough to still believe that Geller is a genuine psychic is too credulous
- to right a thoughtful treatment of parapsychology. Really, it is hardly
- as if The Amazing Randi were the only person to blow awy Geller's facade!
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- Even *if* there is something to parapsychology other than wish fullfilment,
- Uri Geller is *not* a psychic, and never was.
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