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  1. charlie sc

    the existence of god is a scientific fact

    1st, The link it not working, 2nd, give a bit more context, 3rd, show one study not a meta analysis. I think I know why you are giving a link to a meta-analysis. It seems like you think the meta-analysis for the 100 studies somehow infers low-quality research, partly because it's a...
  2. charlie sc

    Have you had a psychic reading and did it come true?

    I don't really care about that blog. You assumed I didn't think the term pseudoscience was polysemic. Your problem, not mine. To further this, you are the one who said I'm not using it correctly, so perhaps you thought it was monosemous. I can't read your mind. Words have usages. I used it in a...
  3. charlie sc

    the existence of god is a scientific fact

    Ugh. Then you pick one study and I'll find a replication that failed. Btw, I got those studies from the meta-analysis: Meta-Analysis of Free-Response Studies, 1992–2008:Assessing the Noise Reduction Model in Parapsychology. I'm not cherry picking. No, it's you that's judging them each...
  4. charlie sc

    the existence of god is a scientific fact

    You never took that position because you don't understand how science operates in a meaningful manner. Sure. I picked the Ganzfeld experiments, because you seem to like those. Braud, L. W., Ackles, L., & Kyles, W. (1984). Free-response GESPperformance during ganzfeld stimulation. In R. A...
  5. charlie sc

    Have you had a psychic reading and did it come true?

    Ok, well, that's a blog of a journalist and scientist giving their opinion on the matter. Similarly, you gave your opinion on the matter. I disagree. So, whatever floats your boat, buddy. lol I found it quite hypocritical of you to say that I'm using the word incorrectly when you use the word...
  6. charlie sc

    Have you had a psychic reading and did it come true?

    Perhaps you can explain why I’m incorrect rather than just assert it. I don’t know this field well, so I don’t know if these fields claim to be fact and science. I looked at the Wiki description Astrology - Wikipedia “Astrology is a pseudoscience that claims to divine information about human...
  7. charlie sc

    Why is Islam so dangerous?

    No one.
  8. charlie sc

    Why is Islam so dangerous?

    Extremism is, it seems, a derogatory term. So it wouldn't be used much for passivism, even though, thinking about it, it probably could be. I suppose they're called extremist because they do extreme things, so things not only out of the norm but to excess. I doubt they'd call themselves...
  9. charlie sc

    Why is Islam so dangerous?

    Fair enough, but not everyone can reduce or block fear as you can. To me, fearing their ideology is natural because it is not an enclosed belief. Their belief harshly judges others who are not like them. If anything, it's a hateful ideology to anyone not like them.
  10. charlie sc

    Why is Islam so dangerous?

    What if their way of being tries to force their way onto you? :)
  11. charlie sc

    Why is Islam so dangerous?

    I'm not sure about that. Islam is an incredibly aggressive ideology. It only makes sense that there will be extremist groups using this ideology to make someone suffer. I'd think it's more of an issue ignoring these facts.
  12. charlie sc

    the existence of god is a scientific fact

    Good science is central to this conversation, because you seem to think if studies fail replication, that somehow means it low quality research, as if the scientific method is perfect already. Good science is finding failures and figuring out how to fix them. Bad science is maliciously making up...
  13. charlie sc

    Have you had a psychic reading and did it come true?

    OK cool, you use all these pseudoscience methods for non-predictive things.
  14. charlie sc

    the existence of god is a scientific fact

    Well, until you're actually specific and quotable with what the paper suggesting, I'll take that as your uninformed opinion as to what science is and what constitutes good science. Yes, and you're drawing your own conclusions from a basic understanding to suite your idea of what science is...
  15. charlie sc

    the existence of god is a scientific fact

    Quote it from me. Lesser point? Going by memory, the hypothesis was to verify the replication problem in science. It was not to see whether there's low quality research being conducted. I came up with that, because you seem to be making generalisation claims from your own opinions inferred...
  16. charlie sc

    the existence of god is a scientific fact

    Now you're not being intellectually honest. You want to use this article as evidence that there's a problem with science and/or there's some low quality studies going on in science, but you don't want to listen to what the authors actually say. This makes no sense unless you're using...
  17. charlie sc

    Have you had a psychic reading and did it come true?

    So, errr, in the example you gave. Are you the sociopath or was it the psychologist?
  18. charlie sc

    Have you had a psychic reading and did it come true?

    Who's the sociopath?
  19. charlie sc

    the existence of god is a scientific fact

    Yes, it's a problem in the sense that the scientific method can be improved. However, this happening, as your suggest, is not a problem. This is how we improve science. The authors of the 100 replication study said - "The present results suggest that there is room to improve reproducibility in...
  20. charlie sc

    Have you had a psychic reading and did it come true?

    I see, but most of those, or all, have a predictive quality. You seem to be ignoring that part of them.
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