Re: [escepticos] Parapsicologia

["Jaime Wilson" <jwilson@...>]

On 15 Jan 98 at 13:12, Ernesto wrote:

> Sacado de The Skeptic Dictionary, de Robert Carroll
> http://wheel.ucdavis.edu/%7Ebtcarrol/skeptic/dictcont.html

> being measured. Then, the problem will be to find the cause. Maybe it
> will turn out to be a psychic force hitherto undetected by physics but
> I would not hold my breath."
>
> [Mi inglés no llega a tanto: ¿qué es "hitherto"?]

En este caso: "hasta el momento"

Y hay muchas.  El psicologo David Marks, quien ha pasado una
enorme cantidad de tiempo estudiando los metodos usados por los
parapsicologos.:

"Parascience has so far failed to produce a single repeatable
findin, and, until it does, will continue to be viewed as an
inchherente collection of belief systems steeped in fantasy,
illusion and error"

O me gusta la cita de Randi:

"Even the 'Guiness Book of Records', listing the single most
astonishing performance in ESP, apologizes and reports that the
episode fails to meet even their standards"

O Sagan (quien segun Anibal se convirtio al misticismo) cuando
dice en su ultimo libro (The Demon-Hunted World):

"In twentieth-century parapsychology laboratories, there is the
'observer effect': Those described as gifted psychics find
that their powers diminish markedly whenever skeptics arrive,
and disappear altogether in the presence of conjurer as skilled
as James Randi.  WHAT THEY NEED IS DARKNESS AND GULLIBILITY."
(Mis mayusculas)

etc...etc...etc...

Pero supongo que ni Carrol, ni Marks, ni Randi ni Sagan son
aceptados en los foros que Anibal frecuenta.

Saludos, Jaime