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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

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3. No, it doesn't prove or disprove anything.

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 15, 2016, 07:15 PM

Oct 2016

But the old saying is still very true.

"Extraordinary claims (like having psychic powers) require extraordinary evidence."

And every time, *EVERY* time, "psychics" are tested in conditions where they can't cheat, they fail. Totally.

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"Psychics" completely blow it. Again. [View all] Archae Oct 2016 OP

But...but... frogmarch Oct 2016 #1

This little experiment neither proves nor disproves life after death. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2016 #2

No, it doesn't prove or disprove anything. Archae Oct 2016 #3