Quote:He is a scientist who he putting forward views that go against the grain of the hardlined skeptics paradigm.
This is a fairer situation since a skeptic HAS to come up with logical and fair counters. Debunking a medium is sooooo easy with blanket statements of cold/ hot reading. A skeptic doesnt need to investigate the medium he/she only has to make that comment.
The only difference with Sheldrake and a genuine medium is that Sheldrake is harder to pound due to that fact that he is a biologist and conducts experiments.
The beauty of a skeptic debunking someone like Sheldrake is they are often forced to show their true colours. For example, Wiseman who was so very keen to tell every newspaper and tv show that the "Dog that knows when he's owner is coming home" experiment was a failure, FAILED to even plot his own results which turn out to give the SAME results as Sheldrakes. He was forced to insert this whimsical condition which he then set as a failure. He tried to imply that the dog went to the window for a long time because of passing cars and cats. Yet the graphs clearly show that this is not the case.
The essence of my point is that you first said that liers and dishonest people should have their hands chopped off. Since a skeptic favours science as a primary tool to debunk people a worthy challenge/test of a skeptics ability would be a scientist putting forward a concept that goes against the standard paradigm.
As the transcript shows, skeptics are often RUBBISH when faced with a fair fight.
I am all for false mediums metophorically having their hands chopped off yet many hard lined skeptics are equally fraudulent and so should suffer the same fate.
Derek Acorah has fake written all over him. Most people consider him fake yet a fake skeptic is never exposed!
You see a 25 stone person, you dont think they are going to be running a marathon, you can generalise that almost all 25 stone people wont be running a marathon, skeptics do that with psychic powers, and end up thinking all claims are fake, yet they think that way for so long, they are extremely stuck in there ways.
Rupert sheldrake, is part of a small group - to which he's done scientific experiments, thus he can answer back, and counter alot of theory's because if he was confident in his results, he would never have published them.
Skeptics are extreme, it's true - so are alot of christians/muslims, psychics. We each fight for our own beliefs, this can blind us to the truth, if a medium/psychic wish's to put a skeptic in his place, they should do what sheldrake does, perform experiments to prove what they can do, put a skeptic in there place, but as i have said rupert is in the minority.
A "fake" [or not a very good] skeptic, is just a person who spouts off, you get them in ever area - from greenpeace to the reformed nazi party. Aslong as you can prove what you know, then it adds to the persons credability, thus he's listened to more etc.
I can watch a bad skeptic spout off, against things -but there just a loud mouth, and as the main point i was trying to prove, a medium messing with someones grief, is like shooting someone who's tied up, they just pray on the weakness of people at a bad time, and charge them for it - were as a skeptic is just a thorn in the side of society.
I agree with you, that skeptics who are crap - dont get the same pasting as a medium who is crap would, and unfortunatly we will just have to hope people can see that these people are just to extreme to listen to any reasonable peice of evidence, and judge them as such.
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