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Just what exactly is sound about positing "magic fields" that have shoddy experimental evidence[1], predict nothing (or if they do, predict obvious things which
by titzer 3y ago
Just what exactly is sound about positing "magic fields" that have shoddy experimental evidence[1], predict nothing (or if they do, predict obvious things which we have completely adequate explanations for), and are totally unfalsifiable?
[1] Like his kooky "dogs know when owners are coming home" experiment (https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/dogs-that-know-when-their-owners-are-coming-home https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/dogs-tha...). Like somehow dogs getting increasingly agitated the longer their owners are away is fucking mysterious to him. Also, apparently dogs cannot hear or smell, tell time, or remember patterns of behavior...at all. Such a kook.
- fractallyte 3y agoI witnessed this phenomenon myself, and I'm decidedly not a kook. I don't have a satisfactory explanation, despite some rather interesting contributions from HN readers. My comment in this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39861066 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39861066 My original observation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33295560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33295560