Camera emits rays

[patnray]

A Looney, yes. But you can't prove him wrong by facts or logic.

You'd have to smuggle an IR camera into a seance and trick him into saying the spirits did not experience any burning sensations before you revealed that the session was recorded in IR.

Caught in such a contradiction, I'm sure he'd invent an equally untestable excuse to explain it.

Perhaps the IR recording would provide a more telling reason....

 

[Zep]

Alas, patnray, you are being reasonable in our sense of the word. In Keane's situation, anything we might do to prove him wrong is "unreasonable," and anything he says or does that supports his own view of reality is completely reasonable. If I'm not mistaken (psychologists feel free to jump in at any time here!), a distorted view of reality is known as "schizophrenia".

 

[patnray]

That is so true. But one wonders... The fantasies are sooo carefully crafted to avoid any statement that could actually be tested and proven wrong that they clearly understand the rules of logic and evidence in the real world...

Hopefully the hoaxes will eventually be uncovered, but Keane and the others will make any excuse to avoid any test that could reveal their secrets...

 

[TheBoyPaj]

I could never understand why they used video cameras as part of the Scole experiments (the "spirits" put images on the tape), but did not allow anyone else to film the lights and apparitions which they claim to have appeared.

Well, I do understand why they didn't allow it, of course. But I don't understand how they have fooled so many supposedly rational people.

 

[Zep]

Originally posted by TheBoyPaj Well, I do understand why they didn't allow it, of course. But I don't understand how they have fooled so many supposedly rational people.

The "supposedly rational people" of which you speak are, more often than not, the junk media, who would cheerfully kill and skin their own grandmothers to put their words and pictures on the front page tomorow or tonight's 11pm TV news.

In other words, most GENUINELY rational people think that Scole is woo-woo lunacy too, but they just don't get to say it in public.