TZ
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Sat Jan-19-08 07:00 AM
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This line here..".Just because some money is counterfeit, we can’t assume that all of it is.." thats a favorite woo argument here on DU about psychic phenomena. In fact I wrote a long rant about this kind of psuedoscientific crap in GD and I got people "claiming" they had PEER REVIEWED data PROVING people were psychic. Well their data was crap from stuff like the Journal of Parapsychology (ooh of course thats on the same page as the jouranl Neurology!:eyes: ) where the most SUCCESSFUL participants were correct at best 20% of the time. Its statistically significant and greater than random chance. Well whoop-de-do..So a successful psychic is someone who is wrong 80% of the time? Would you want someone trying to find a missing person knowing the odds are likely that they won't be correct about anything? Assuming of course they actually HAVE this ability in the first place and aren't outright frauds or delusional. Sheesh. And most of these people are the ones that think Big Pharma "makes up shit" when I can tell you, a drug thats only effective on less than 20% of the population is not likely to go anywhere.
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