proving

Hi Everyone, I have been lurking around here for some time in hopes of finding the best way to appy for the challenge. Since I am still in the dark on how to do so I am coming here for advice. A little background to me: When I was a young child of the age of 5 I was hit by a car travelling...

On another forum, in a discussion regarding the lack of scientific evidence for psychics, a believer said: Neither comment makes the slightest bit of sense to me. I have some thoughts on a reply, but thought I'd ask for some input here first. How would you (civilly) respond to that?

A quick question I'd like to run through the Randi forums. I know there are a lot of smart people here; maybe someone can help me out. It's often said that you can't prove a negative. This doesn't seem right to me. It seems to me that it's very easy to prove a negative in some cases. But...

Forgive me if I seem like an idiot in asking this question. I actually AM an idiot, so I have an excuse. We often speak of the impossibility of proving a negative (for example, asking someone to prove that the Invisible Pink Unicorn doesn't exist) in order to highlight the silliness of an...

Hi everybody! I've been lurking a while, but this is my first post. I've been running this "can't prove a negative" thing through my head for a while, and I wanted to get other's opinions. Let's take a standard example: The easter bunny doesn't exist. Can't prove that, cause it's a...

Just finished reading Hans's attempt at a self-inflicted homeopathic "proving" over at the Homeopathic Quackery Absolutely spiffing stuff from Hans and Jazz Bee (who was that ? Rolfe ?) :clap: Certainly worth a read even though it dates from the end of 2003. What a bunch, these homeopaths.

I don't remember seeing this discussed here but perhaps it was. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled "proving" was conducted by the Complementary Medicine Research Unit, University of Southampton and published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. No surprise - no clinical...

If this question seems silly please bear with me as I have had only a smattering of philosophy and formal logic in college. Further, I am really, really bored at work so my mind is wandering. I have often heard the phrase that you cannot prove a negative. I have been thinking about that...