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Article #5078Re: AUSTRALIAN SKEPTICS RENEGE ON THEIR OWN PROTOCOL
From: Sylvia Else
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:39
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:39
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On 29/09/2010 12:14 PM, |-|ercules wrote: > You've probably heard Sylvia Else backing down from doing an > objective test of my mind reading powers, saying again and again > that a negative result doesn't prove I DON'T have powers so what is > the point? We started an objective test, but you bailed out after just two results were in, since they were not to your liking. It's a no-win situation for me. I fully expect you to fail any test. But you won't then accept that you don't have the power. Instead, at best you'll want to start the whole laborious process again with some variant of the protocol. At worst, and on the evidence, most probably, you'll accuse me of subverting the protocol in some way so as to prevent you from succeeding. You'll also engage in various forms of abuse. There are plenty of examples of that stored in Google's Usenet archive. In our recent discussions, it's become clear that you believe your power draws a distinction between what people think and what they do, being sensitive to the former rather than the latter. Pending the construction of real mind-reading machines, this makes your power completely immune to any kind of disproof. In such a situation, why would I, or anyone else, bother? Might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb. Sylvia.
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