Julie Beischel, and Stephen's Braude's essays are good to read one after another. Julie's essay focuses on her research into mediums, while Stephen's essay spends a considerable amount of time discussing the survivalist vs living-agent psi debate in the context of mediumship (and other topics). Apparently the survivalist vs living agent psi debate is quite a heated one among parapyschologists!
It would be nice to see some well-written and peer reviewed failed replications of Julie's work if they exist, or else just peer-reviewed criticisms to see what a non-parapyschologist would have to say about her work.
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Nice!Lucas Oliveira wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:45 am Announcing the BICS Challenge Grants Program for 2023
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Those in doubt need Faith … not evidence
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They simply need faith in internet propagada,
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Looks like you forgot for the 2nd time why you were wrong about the importance of this. Should we go through it for the 3rd time?
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Wouldn't it be more accurately titled "Best Evidence for Afterdeath" since the apparent death is not the end? After all, life goes on.
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What? Tell about your beliefs on the matter of " Life After Death". I swear I will read what you write but I cannot swear that I will share your beliefs.Modus.Ponens wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 12:34 amLooks like you forgot for the 2nd time why you were wrong about the importance of this. Should we go through it for the 3rd time?
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Let me do a bit of copy pasting from previous conversations.SteRo wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 2:09 amWhat? Tell about your beliefs on the matter of " Life After Death". I swear I will read what you write but I cannot swear that I will share your beliefs.Modus.Ponens wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 12:34 amLooks like you forgot for the 2nd time why you were wrong about the importance of this. Should we go through it for the 3rd time?
This kind of research is as important as the SETI program.
So you think that search for extraterrestrial intelligence justifies affirmation of intraterestrial irrationality?
You look just as ridiculous as the people who mock the possibility of there being intelligent life outside Earth. Besides, what both serious parapsychologists and serious skeptics like Michael Shermer do is scientific research. Negative results are still results. The important part is to follow scientific methodology strictly.
Nothing against that. But applying scientific methodology "BICS"'s endeavour is revealed to be non-scientific (thus "irrational") from the outset.
Your objection is to using the scientific method, or to studying areas like this one? Those are two different things. If scientific research wasn't done on homeopathy more people would believe it works. Acupuncture is another example where scientific research shows it has a very limited value. I'm not only in favour of this kind of research. I'm in favour of having a SETI-like mentality when it comes to finding out things that do not fit the materialist paradigm. You can personally dismiss the belief in such things as irrational, but not the scientific research into these areas.
First there has to be a hypothesis based on already scientifically validated facts.
The "BICS"'s endeavour is not based on scientifically validated facts. It is a mere invocation to provide fantasies in written form.
Not at all. One counterexample to the paradigm is enough to destroy it. Of course the counterexample has to be independently reproducible under rigorous circumstances. But it would only take one counterexample to change the paradigm. What BICS seems to be doing is collecting the best available evidence (not proof, evidence) to point the way to proper rigorous research. A laudable goal.
BICS obviously is an enemy of science and you are violating the term "research".
Well, I am not violating anything. SETI is valid research. The scientific search for non material phenomena is valid.
As for BICS, I don't know. I find this interesting.
This thread is not about SETI.
It would be valid if - and only if - there is a scientific hypothesis based on validated scientific facts that there are nonmaterial phenomena. But since there is no such hypothesis there cannot be scientific research for non material phenomena. There can be research for non material phenomena but such research isn't scientific research.
This thread isn't about SETI, but SETI is as valid a research project as is the search for non material phenomena. And you can do scientific research on things not based on "a scientific hypothesis based on validated scientific facts". The scientific research on acupuncture is an example.
No. Since there is scientific knowledge about intraterrestrial intelligence SETI is a scientific research project But there is no scientific knowledge that might provide the basis for reasearch for non material phenomena.
No, it is not that any research would be scientific research.
Nonsense. First the research project on acupuncture has to be defined before it may be specified as scientific or non-scientific.
Obviously not every study of acupuncture is scientific. But every study of acupuncture that follows the scientific method is scientific. Here's another example:
"Emily Rosa (born February 6, 1987) is the youngest person to have a research paper published in a peer reviewed medical journal. At age nine Rosa conceived and executed a scientific study of therapeutic touch which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1998.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Rosa
So, yes, you can do scientific research on paranormal stuff. Negative results are still results. You may think nothing will come out of this kind of research and it's a waste of money. That's fine. But you cannot invalidate the field of study itself.
Of cours you can't. You are merely trying to establish non-science as science and with that you are following the path shared by all irrationalists in modern age which is the age of science.
I've already proven you can. You can only take a horse to the water but you can't make it drink it.
What do you call published research on acupuncture? And published research on touch therapy, which is supposed to transmit energy? This stuff is published in medicine journals. But you insist on not accepting the obvious. Drink the water already.
If you want to scientifically discuss acupuncture or transmission of heat energy through material contact then please set the scientific grounds for these topics. But don't use fantasies to support the non-scientific idiocy of the BICS project.
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I've studied more than 5,000 near death experiences. My research has convinced me without a doubt that there's life after death.
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