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Understood. Thank you for the correction. I think I did :-D But apparently misunderstood it and didn't read it (understand it) thoroughly enough. I was clearly projecting my pet peewees in discussions like these. People have no functional or real-life understanding what capitalism, free...

"But if you live in the real world, you have to be smarter, more ethical and better.... Capitalism..... " An equal strawman can be built against capitalism, but that is not an interesting avenue of argument for me. However, not trying to derail this discussion, I humbly suggest you deeply look...

Ingo Swann -- often labelled as 'the father of remote viewing' and clearly a masterful psychic - was clearly a visionary painter, although he himself called it 'cosmic art'. “It’s unkind to point out the Obvious To those who don’t want to see it. But it’s worse to point out the Invisible To...

Thanks Alex. Same here. BTW, Gotzsche would probably be easy to get to talk about science-fraud, pharma-mafia and what is scientific 'truth'.

Even though some of us feel that the AGW (and CW) debate is a dead horse beaten too much, perhaps the following scientist might be an interesting interview candidate: David Evans http://sciencespeak.com/about.html - mathematical climate modeller, not climate-change denier nor , trying to model...

I think it is useless to try and put Alex or even Daniel into either/or, denial/proponent, capitalist-pig/treehugger or whatever forced dichotomy camps. I think why there was so much derision or argumentation, was because (imho, ymmv), both of them are trying to find a third way or a fourth...

On Jeroen's point... Most people thing that models and theories (by default) exclude the possibility or truthiness of other models. So we (intuitive default) to exclusive OR aka XOR in logic. However, unless the underlying theory specificly dictates and excludes (and proves so!) the existence...

Good show, liked it a lot. Both the (often male) 'science as ruthless falsification' style and (often femal) 'let's find the truth together' approaches came to alive in the show. As towards your question. I have tried several approaches : 1) just don't talk to people who do not look at the...

There are fairly simple known, studied, experimentally verified and generally accepted psychological models of perception that deal with questions like this: priming, selective attention, change blindness, etc. In summary, even with 100% wake, cognitively healthy and 20/20 vision capable...

Bishop, I was not referring to you or anybody in particular. I just noted that the was , what I felt as "letting out steam" and demands and requirements as to what somebody else should do with their research. I got this a lot when I did mine, my standard reply was: "That's a great idea! Why...

There is no proof on Powell being a fraud. That is all opinion and very premature at that. The burden of proof is always on the claimant. One way or the other. Until there is proof, the only scientific stance is to abstain from drawing a conclusion. I for one am looking forward to reading the...

For me, It boils down to this: 1. It is not selfish for you to live your life (not others) as you see fit. 2. It is selfish to say to others how they should live their life to satisfy your wants/wishes/fears/needs. Why I don't vaccinate? My body and my life (incl. my risk). My reading of the...

Thanks, Don. I've gathered as much in my own reading. It's always interesting to see what others define as success (and thus, implicit goal). Mine differ slightly. I just jive with what Jed wrote in 'Enlightenment...' -- if the Consumer Report would do a rating on most paths, schools, gurus...

Thanks, I'm down with McKenna. Much of what he conveys resonates with my intellect and core. I think he used the buddhist inquiry himself -- if his story is not just a metaphor. Yet, it is quite removed from the 8-limb path of yoga :-) Me, I'm just chugging along, watching me....

Can you clarify this statement? I know several people who have been on the eight fold path of yoga for at least two decades and all they've gotten is lower blood pressure, limber body (sometimes with over-extended joints and associated problems), a bit calmer emotional state and not necessarily...