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Dude, you're supressing my vibes.

Post by Mr P » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:46 pm

ESP proponents claim that ESP skeptics are psychic, and use their powers to suppress ESP.

http://boingboing.net/2011/12/07/esp-pr ... t-esp.html

A fine example of circular reasoning if ever there was one.
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Re: Dude, you're supressing my vibes.

Post by Animavore » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:47 pm

Always an excuse with these people.
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Re: Dude, you're supressing my vibes.

Post by Mr P » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:49 pm

Animavore wrote:Always an excuse with these people.
I knew you were thinking that :biggrin:
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Re: Dude, you're supressing my vibes.

Post by FBM » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:50 pm

I had a feeling somebody was going to start a thread about this. :levi:
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Re: Dude, you're supressing my vibes.

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:51 pm

Mr P wrote:ESP proponents claim that ESP skeptics are psychic, and use their powers to suppress ESP.

http://boingboing.net/2011/12/07/esp-pr ... t-esp.html

A fine example of circular reasoning if ever there was one.
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Re: Dude, you're supressing my vibes.

Post by Mr P » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:56 pm

I just knew that I'd be resonding in this fashion to all your responses about knowing what was going to be said.
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Re: Dude, you're supressing my vibes.

Post by PsychoSerenity » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:00 pm

:fp:

But fine, whatever - get some people who believe in ESP to (double blind, of course) run the experiment again.

But I suppose then they would claim that the results did support ESP until the sceptics looked at them, :panic: - at which point the sceptic's psychic powers of disbelief actually alter the results and erase all evidence and memory that they were ever different.

How do we know that's not what happens in all science, eh?
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Re: Dude, you're supressing my vibes.

Post by Mr P » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:04 pm

Psychoserenity wrote::fp:

But fine, whatever - get some people who believe in ESP to (double blind, of course) run the experiment again.

But I suppose then they would claim that the results did support ESP until the sceptics looked at them, :panic: - at which point the sceptic's psychic powers of disbelief actually alter the results and erase all evidence and memory that they were ever different.

How do we know that's not what happens in all science, eh?
Hey that must mean psychics is quantum fizziks :tut:
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Re: Dude, you're supressing my vibes.

Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:30 pm

I haz powerz? :ask: :woot:
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