Recent content by Mr.Sandman

I'll just be a little picky here. I agree that these theories are (at least with our current technology) unfasifiable, but there are "reasons to believe" them. For instance some scattering problems have "stringy-like" solutions. And it's natural do expect some theory resembling string theory to...

I don't want to discuss that, mainly because I'm not a supporter of the super-psi hypothesis. But I think that once you accept NDE as something that involves some "paranormal" aspects, you open a pandora box and you need to investigate all allegedly paranormal claims, from reincarnation to...

Yes. I read it and it's one of the most misunderstood books both by skeptics and proponents. First of all, it's an academic book. It was published in a "modern theology" series and it's clearly aimed at people with some familiarity reading philosophy text. And, as an analytical philosopher...

IMO I liked the idea better than the "let's add some more fields until everything cancels out" of QFT. However, I have my reservation since their semiclassical approach is different from the usual. And the fact that, by simply chainging <T_ij> for Tij, they obtained very different predictions...

No. In fact, we know so little about consciousness that it's too soon to say anything for sure. As the authors wrote in the end of the manuscript: "Although we observe purported neural correlates of consciousness during AS3, elevated connectivity and gamma power have also been associated with...

Lol.I hate when journalists do that. Sometimes the text reads like a slapstick comedy script. There's the batshit crazy scientist (Daryl Bem) whose experiment consists in showing heterosexual pornographic pictures to random people (and sometimes to gay people) in order to find ESP. And the...

I'm not a Christian, but if anyone here is or at least is sympathetic to some Christian doctrines, see this blog: http://www.wall.org/~aron/blog/?s=god It's from a young (and bright) christian cosmologist.

Yesterday the magazine Slate posted this: http://redux.slate.com/cover-stories/2017/05/daryl-bem-proved-esp-is-real-showed-science-is-broken.html? It's the "cover" (they are an online magazine) story of their new issue. And the title is "Daryl Bem proved ESP is real" and the subtitle was...

Poltergeist Phenomena: A Primer on Parapsychological Research and Perspectives http://publicparapsychology.org/Public%20Parapsych/Poltergeist%20Phenomena%20Primer%20Final.pdf

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/can_electromagnetic_fields_create_ghosts Not even CSICOP accepts that theory. (This also shows that not all "professional Skeptics" endorse the first non-paranormal explanation they find)

Bem vindo(a), flyerz.

Unfortunately, that's the case. I have no problem with some random "skeptic_ifuckinlovescience_42" quoting wikipedia to "debunk" something. However, it sucks that some "open minded" person will probably read wikipedia and be convinced that there's zero evidence for anything "paranormal". People...

On-topic: No, I disagree. Science is just a collection of very useful tools. There's not even a all-encompassing scientific method. The research in psychology is very different from the research in microbiology, which is very different from the research in high energy physics. I believe people...

I'm unconvinced. I read Ed May two papers "Multiphasic Model of Precognition" and "'Precognition: The Only Form of Psi?" and I'm totally unimpressed. In fact, both papers are not very good. In fact, his argument apparently was just"Entropy is related to the flow of time, entropy is related to...

I just want to comment that is not new that p < 0.05 is meaningless in some areas. In fact, you cannot access much information just using one number. This is not a discovery made recently, in fact, any good statistician knows that. The main problem is that there has been an exponential increase...