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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Disproving a theory is every bit as important as proving a theory. By
>>> proving that the psychic phenominon does not exist, now nobody else
>>> needs to study it. This is beneficial.
>>
>> If *nobody else* studying it is good, an unqualified *nobody* studying
>> it is
>> even better, is it not?
>
> The only way to scientifically determine whether a claim is valid or not
> is to, you know, actually investigate it. If we wrote off anything that
> sounded too weird, human kind would never have advanced anywhere.
>
No argument there. Now.. Given how only the people that cheat, lie,
stack the deck, or consider "Blair Witch" style theatrics, followed by
babbling, "That random sound sort of sounded like...", or, "Gee that
random camera glitch moved like moved 'purposefully', why can't we drop
the supposed paranormal already? Oh, and I love that last one, "move
purposefully". By whose definition, by what criteria? That its less
random than some other random light? More? Moved in what you *think* is
a pattern? What the hell does "moved purposefully" even fraking mean
without context of the ability to determine what the purpose *is*?
The most famous people in the paranormal are 1) a group (or several) of
idiots wandering around wetting themselves over random noises, 2) people
caught cold reading and/or staging methods to get information out of
people before a show, 3) another cold reader who had to film 8 hours of
show, with one *very* tired audience, then edit together the mind tricks
and BS methods he used to *trick* people into thinking that something
they told him 3 hours ago was a "new revelation", people counting random
similarities between scribbles and locations as "hits" for distance
viewing, and a whole host of similar people that are either confused or
intentionally lying.
Its been tested and retested ***over and over*** thousands of times,
some times even by bloody grade schoolers, and the conclusion reached in
every single case is either that its a magic trick, run by someone
denying that they are a magician, coincidental, non-repeatable, and
usually damn vague, accidents, or deluded idiots, who actually fell for
an earlier scam, and now have invested so much effort into being right
that they are mentally *incapable* of admitting that the initial con,
while long gone by, is now being perpetuated by them, because they
can't, or won't, use the same logic with their "paranormal" stuff as
they do to decide if the guy selling them a used car is telling them the
truth, or when looking for their keys, instead of, "asking the spirits",
where they put them.
And, that is the problem. Dowsing doesn't work. Gluing non-functioning
bits of wire and a crystal to it doesn't make it work, it just makes it
a lame ass sci-fi version of a wand from Harry Potter. It still won't
work, because there is no "science" behind how it works, its just
dowsing, with an even stupider dowsing rod. For someone to examine the
validity of the idea, at this point, they need a) a plausible mechanism
by which it works, and b) something that isn't blindingly obvious to
anyone using their brain, or predisposed to believing in it, is nothing
more than a different divining rod, not a "new technology". And the same
goes for "all" of it. All anyone ever comes up with is trivial blather
about how these things work, which are not quantifiable, and don't
actually say anything at all about "how". Its word salad. Like gluing a
"Heisenberg compensator" to a transporter in Star Trek to get around
that it flat out *doesn't exist* and no plausible means to make one work
correctly exists. Even if someone found and answer, and even if they
called it the same thing, it wouldn't matter, because the HC is just a
made up word, with no factual, mathematical, or scientific model for
*how* it works. Anything that did work would have to actually *have*
those. And none of the stuff sold, marketed, or babbled about, even
attempts to present a usable theory (or, when they do, its one
indistinguishable from not having one, since it breaks 50 other laws of
physics, which the people who come up with it either don't know,
understand, or actually get completely backwards).
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