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- From: vwp@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (mark.a.skala)
- Subject: Re: Validity of Astrology/Psychic Powers
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:13:25 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.211325.25182@cbnewsk.cb.att.com>
- References: <1jnp5hINNrm3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1993Jan22.182825.21314@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> <1993Jan22.143647.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan22.143647.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> fi32@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:
- >> ... 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.
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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.
- >
- >Phillip
- >
- This is not true. I agree that he goes to public media (i.e. tv talk
- shows) and proceeds to show things like how he can bend spoons and such,
- and says that other people who do it are just like him and don't have
- any special powers. I agree that this is not proof that they do not
- have psychic powers. This is just demonstration. But his reward is
- done by experiment that you and he both design and agree to. For
- example, he had a number of dowsers who agreed to detect water running
- through 1 of 10 pipes a few inches underground in a small area. All failed.
-
- Mark A. Skala "Anything worth doing is worth
- vwp@cbnewsk.att.com doing to excess."
-