Wat een vreemde vergelijking, Randi doet helemaal niks wetenschappelijks, hij laat juist de mensen die claimen iets ongelofelijks te kunnen hun kunstje onder wetenschappelijke omstandigheden uitvoeren. Hier kun je toch niets tegen hebben?
Hij doet inderdaad niks wetenschappelijks, en paranormale mensen aan wetenschappelijk onderzoek onderwerpen doet hij dus ook niet.
Laat ik Randi zelf maar even spreken:
But you're not a scientist. How can you speak on these matters with authority?
Authority does not rest with scientists, when emotion, need, and desperation are involved. Scientists are human beings, too; they can be deceived and self-deceived. We at the JREF are skilled in two directions: we know how people are fooled by others, and we know how people fool themselves. We deal with hard, basic, facts, and we try our best to make them known. We try to protect people from influences that might obscure the true danger of uncritical thinking. We often succeed. And we have very substantial and eminent scientific authorities on hand to provide the advice and specialization we require.
Scientific papers have been written supporting paranormal events and talents. Therefore, how can you deny them?
Scientists can be wrong sometimes, very wrong. The history of science is replete with serious errors of judgment, bad research, faked results, and simple mistakes, made by scientists in every field. The beauty of science is that it corrects itself by its own nature and design. By this means, science provides us with increasingly clearer views of how the world works. Unfortunately, though science itself is self-correcting, sometimes the scientists involved do not correct themselves. And there is not a single example of a scientific discovery in the field of parapsychology that has been independently replicated. That makes parapsychology absolutely unique in the world of science.
http://www.randi.org/research/faq.html
Kortom, je hebt hier een niet-wetenschapper die je probeert wijs te maken dat hij beter onderzoek kan uitvoeren dan wetenschappers zelf.
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