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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
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Subject: Re: Weird Science (Sources of Revealed Truth)
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Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 03:43:41 EDT
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>>Let's take mystics as a case in point.  Now Rich is hardly in any position to
>>claim that the claims of any particular mystic or group of mystics are false. 
>>He hasn't (apparently) had such an experience, he knows as little about the
>>brain and the mind as the rest of us, and he hasn't been studying the
>>physiology of these people.  All he can do is speculate. [Charley Wingate]
> 
> Have you ever seen the Journal of Irreproducible Results, or (better) the
> Skeptical Inquirer?  Have you ever acknowledged any serious research on
> such phenomena?  [Rich Rosen]

If *you* had ever read the Journal of Irreproducable Results, Rich, I
rather doubt that you would be citing it as a reference.  It is a humor
magazine, a parody of scientific work.  Or can't you tell?

						Baba


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