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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Firewalking and the Scientific Method
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 17:04:59 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 16 17:04:59 1985
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> Once again, the public is being fooled.  The single fact that is
> ignored in the Skeptical Inquirer article is that some of these people
> have successfully done their fire-walking without injury at one time or
> another.

I believe you misread the article, or perhaps part was missing in the
posting.  The Skeptical Inquirer never suggested that no one ever
succeeds at firewalking.  Indeed, as I'm sure they're quite aware,
injuries are relatively rare for people who don't catch a coal on the
foot (as happened to Jearl Walker once) or remain standing too long in
one spot.  The point being made by SI was that people are being mislead
by these firewalking instructors who fail to point out that there really
is (sometimes) an injury.  Or to note that the "training" is irrelevant,
since plenty of folks have done it without any mystical teaching.
-- 
D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-3695
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