I don’t need to read the book. I believe that psi effects are not real, because if they were, they would already be part of accepted science.
It’s not a matter of being closed-minded or open-minded. I’m just not accepting your book author as a legitimate authority. Most things I believe, I believe because they are asserted by authorities I accept. For example, I have never personally seen an experiment performed that establishes that the Sun is made primarily of hydrogen and helium, that an atom of gold contains seventy-nine protons, that George Washington was the first President of the United States, that light is quantized, or many other things I learned in school.
My criteria is simple: on matters in which I have no special expertise or direct knowledge, I simply accept the view of the majority of those I consider legitimate experts. If you want to persuade me that “psi: is real, go persuade the Nobel Prize committee; anyone who can establish it through controlled, repeatable experiments would certainly be deserving of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
In other words, I rely on people like James Randi and Joe Nickell to do the investigating for me. Convince them, and I’ll believe in psi. Until then, don’t go shoving your data in my face, because I’ll just conclude that your data, or your interpretation of it, is wrong.
I don’t need to read the book. I believe that psi effects are not real, because if they were, they would already be part of accepted science.
It’s not a matter of being closed-minded or open-minded. I’m just not accepting your book author as a legitimate authority. Most things I believe, I believe because they are asserted by authorities I accept. For example, I have never personally seen an experiment performed that establishes that the Sun is made primarily of hydrogen and helium, that an atom of gold contains seventy-nine protons, that George Washington was the first President of the United States, that light is quantized, or many other things I learned in school.
My criteria is simple: on matters in which I have no special expertise or direct knowledge, I simply accept the view of the majority of those I consider legitimate experts. If you want to persuade me that “psi: is real, go persuade the Nobel Prize committee; anyone who can establish it through controlled, repeatable experiments would certainly be deserving of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
In other words, I rely on people like James Randi and Joe Nickell to do the investigating for me. Convince them, and I’ll believe in psi. Until then, don’t go shoving your data in my face, because I’ll just conclude that your data, or your interpretation of it, is wrong.