Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cybvax0.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!think!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Parapsychology. Message-ID: <800@cybvax0.UUCP> Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 11:27:45 EST Article-I.D.: cybvax0.800 Posted: Sat Oct 26 11:27:45 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 06:23:05 EST References: <970@decwrl.UUCP> <796@cybvax0.UUCP> <565@oakhill.UUCP> Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 36 Summary: In article <565@oakhill.UUCP> davet@oakhill.UUCP (Dave Trissel) writes: > In article <796@cybvax0.UUCP> mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) writes: > >The fact is, there is NO demonstrable, reproducible psychic phenominon > >after who knows how many years of research. .... > > Um... Yea. Out of all those >3000 papers there was absolutely NO PSI > documented. Name one paper documenting a psi phenominon that any scientist who has tried reasonably has reproduced. Something I could demonstrate in a classroom. The fact is that if such a phenominon was available for study, it would make significnt waves in the scientific community, and be widely reported in the mainstream eclectic journals (like Science) rather than hidden in obscure or ill-refereed journals the way most psychic research is. > And the greatest part is that Mike didn't have to look at any > of those 3000 papers to know that. > > I guess that sums up the validy of ESP. Mike's 'knowlege at a distance' > clairvoyance would seem the best proof of the validity of ESP seen yet in > this discussion. The fact is that genuine, reproducible, new phenomina are clamorously announced throughout the scientific community. Take for example the recent iridium-enriched layer of clay that was proposed by Alvarez as evidence of a large meteor strike that could have caused a mass extinction. Which recently led to the discovery of soot within that layer, another evidence of a large strike. The theories are widely debated, but the phenomina are well established. Where are the well-established psychic phenomina comparable to scraping off a bit of clay at the boundary zone anywhere worldwide and finding soot and a high measure of iridium? -- Mike Huybensz ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh