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Telepathy

As far as I gather, this piece of news is even less than what is usually claimed by the afterlife crowd: people that seem dead may actually exhibit brain waves for longer than expected. So there is no afterlife here, and no telepathy. Dying just takes longer.
 
steenkh said:
As far as I gather, this piece of news is even less than what is usually claimed by the afterlife crowd: people that seem dead may actually exhibit brain waves for longer than expected. So there is no afterlife here, and no telepathy. Dying just takes longer.
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Jabba attempted to rely on a study of brainwaves in those who had been near death. Strangely, the authors actually say that they found nothing even vaguely paranormal about any of it. It's pretty lousy evidence in that it isn't evidence.
 
steenkh said:
As far as I gather, this piece of news is even less than what is usually claimed by the afterlife crowd: people that seem dead may actually exhibit brain waves for longer than expected. So there is no afterlife here, and no telepathy. Dying just takes longer.
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Experts disagree...
 
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YouTubes, it appears, on a different than the thread topic, which is, as you may recall, Telepathy.

KotA said in the OP, 730 posts ago, he had seen films and studies with evidence for Telepath. I believe he has yet to provide citations.
 
Oystein said:
YouTubes, it appears, on a different than the thread topic, which is, as you may recall, Telepathy.

KotA said in the OP, 730 posts ago, he had seen films and studies with evidence for Telepath. I believe he has yet to provide citations.
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I think that video I just posted 'may' be the original video to spawn this thread!
 
King of the Americas said:
I posted a video of a UVA conference, and our nations' leading experts' comment on the subject!
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I watched a few minutes of that video. It was just some guy saying Magic A is real, Magic B is real, Magic C is real. Where is the actual evidence of telepathy?

And what makes this small group "our nations' leading experts'? I looked them up and visited their website. They have a small number of publications, and the few I checked are just not referenced by the scientific community. It is just a handful of true believers telling each other they are right to believe.

Remember your excuse for backing out of any testing? You say that if there was any hard evidence of telepathy, there would be significant consequences for anyone who could demonstrate the ability. And you are right, in a way. If "nations' leading experts" thought that telepathy was real, it would be a major subject of investigation, both in academia and in industry. Telepaths would be a critical component of the military. Telepaths'R'Us would have a branch in every city.

Instead, you have a video of maybe 2 dozen people in a small classroom. I don't know if you've gotten to a point in your life where you have some expertise, but I can tell you that when you do, this is not what a conference of experts is like. You would never have the nation's leading dermatologists sitting in a room for 2 hours for the topic of "Is skin real?" You would not have slides with bullet points like "Skin is for touching" and "More skin less blood".

And, I have to point out that this conference is not even about the right kind of magic. You are claiming telepathy. This video was about life after death.
 
P.J. Denyer said:
Yeah, I'd have responded myself if I wasn't so busy digging bits of irony detector out of the drywall.
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You know, now you mention it: Irony Detectors are a real hidden cost of this Skeptic lark. I've a basement full of the broken buggers. Can't afford a new one. Am thinking of trying an irony mood-ring. It's made from copper; they say is good for toxins too!


:p
 
Donn said:
You know, now you mention it: Irony Detectors are a real hidden cost of this Skeptic lark. I've a basement full of the broken buggers. Can't afford a new one. Am thinking of trying an irony mood-ring. It's made from copper; they say is good for toxins too!


:p
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Does it have magnets too?:D
 
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