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> skeptics generally don’t care to push back They do care to push back though! It's just that there's much more of a market for wishful pseudoscientific bullsh
by igor47 11mo ago
> skeptics generally don’t care to push back
They do care to push back though! It's just that there's much more of a market for wishful pseudoscientific bullshit than for careful, history and evidence based sceptical bashing of hopes. Just another example of how broken our information ecosystem is.
I learned about TT from my favorite podcast the SGU, where it was placed in the historical context of the FC controversy and then roundly debunked.
https://www.theskepticsguide.org/ https://www.theskepticsguide.org/
- sunscream89 11mo ago[flagged]
- VMG 11mo agoI am eternally grateful for the SGU. Our escape to reality indeed
- an0malous 11mo agoIt’s not pseudoscientific, it’s one of the most rigorously studied topics in academia and has pushed the standard for psychology research: https://www.deanradin.com/recommended-references https://www.deanradin.com/recommended-references The Ganzfield experiments have been reproduced 78 times by 46 researchers and this review article concludes that anomalous cognition meets the standards of proof: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11134153/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11134153/ The president of the American Statistical Association has reviewed the evidence for psi and said: “Using the standards applied to any other area of science, it is concluded that psychic functioning has been well-established” https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-darkness/202005/do-psi-phenomena-exist-the-debate-continues/amp https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-darkness/202... Of course you don’t believe it because you listen to a podcast about skepticism so it’s a dogma for you, you’ve drawn your conclusion without even considering the evidence. Skepticism is a religion as much as Catholicism in Galileo’s time.