Michael Shermer, the critic of pseudoscience and editor of Skeptic magazine, has implicitly supported this idea by becoming an adviser to the Brain Preservation Foundation.
I don’t think that being open to testing a claim empirically in no way implies that you support the claim. Randi 1,000,000$ prize for psychics is also no endorsement of paranormal claims.
Sorry, you’ve made a bad comparison. Randi hasn’t raised that money for a Paranormal X-Prize. The Brain Preservationists, by contrast, have strictly empiricist criteria for deciding who wins the incentive prizes.
I don’t think that being open to testing a claim empirically in no way implies that you support the claim. Randi 1,000,000$ prize for psychics is also no endorsement of paranormal claims.
Sorry, you’ve made a bad comparison. Randi hasn’t raised that money for a Paranormal X-Prize. The Brain Preservationists, by contrast, have strictly empiricist criteria for deciding who wins the incentive prizes.
Reference: http://www.brainpreservation.org/content/competitors
Randi runs a paranormal X-Prize. Are you saying that Randi hasn’t strictly empirical criteria for deciding who wins his price?