Originally Posted by Kromoh
To me, a slight change in the odds of one sole experiment does not prove anything. And that's usually the kind of results parapsychology has.
We're not talking about proof, but about evidence. Parapsychology showed evidence of psi phenomena that is statistically significant, according to established scientific standards.
There are a lot of other fields, such as psychology and medicine, in which it is often nassasary to repeat an experiment many times until you can see a statistically significant result.
Originally Posted by Kromoh
Lastly, Parapsychology is not a science yet. It might even use the scientifical method in some instances, but there's no scientific finding whatsoever.
Thats not true at all, most parapsychologists are using very scientific methodology. In fact they are using more rigorous methodology than is expected of scientists in other fields, such as psychology and medicine, because parapsychologists know that the slightest methodological error they make, and the skeptics will totally dismiss their experiment.
Also Parapsychology have found many findings which are absolutely fascinating. For example look up the Ganzfeld experiments, and also the dream-precognition experiments. Even if you are not impressed by these experiments, your claim that there is no scientific findings whatsoever is false.
Now you can read information in skeptic sites that try to dismiss such experiments, but I have read those dismisals, and I have also read the reaction of the parapsychologists to these dismissals, and I am not impressed of the skeptic view. It usually goes like this:
1) A parapsychologist is presenting result from some experiments
2) A skeptic is trying to dismiss the experiment, usually by pointing at methodological errors.
3) The parapsychologist is reacting to the dismissal, explaining why the experiment is valid.
4) The skeptic doesn't react back, or maybe reacts by repeating the original argument without referring to the reaction of the parapsychologist.
I have read a lot of this stuff, and I came to the conclusions that:
1) Most parapsychologist are extremely serious scientists.
2) Experiments in parapsychology showed evidence of psi phenomena.
3) In most cases when I look at the skeptics arguments side by side with the parapsychologists arguments, the side of the parapsychologist looks more convincing, or at least much more serious and detailed.
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