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- From: fi32@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
- Subject: Validity of Astrology/Psychic Powers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.143647.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:36:47 GMT
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- > ... If anyone can show proof they have any paranormal powers,
- > the magician James Randi has had an outstanding many thousand-dollar
- > reward for about 20 years, just waiting for you to come and claim it.
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- The problem with Mr. Randi's wager is that it is very difficult to prove you
- did somethink with personal/psychic power. His approach has always been to
- duplicate an effect with some artificial means, and then to say that that
- "proves" the psychic must have done it that way. This is not a valid approach.
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- Astrologers for centuries have documented the synchronicity of events with
- heavenly motions. Just because the majority of people choose to put it all down
- to "just a coincidence" does not invalidate our point.
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- Phillip
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