Chris Masse writes:
I know you hate the topic, but during this debate (discussing both sides), they were issues raised that are of interest of your science.
Actually I just don’t have the patience to watch videos. But I’ll forward it on to the rest of you. I’ve already posted my thoughts on the matter here. ESP is certainly something that a lot of people want to be true.
Here's a MIT study tracing Bin Laden where abouts: Exponential distance-decay model with probability and distance.
http://web.mit.edu/mitir/2009/online/finding-bin-…
UCLA, not MIT.
>>>ESP is certainly something that a lot of people want to be true.
I think Rahul is right. From a scientific culture perspective, it reminds me of this:
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
John P. A. Ioannidis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11823…
except that Ioannidis is intending to show flaws in the system. Bem was at least theoretically intending to show ESP.