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I kinda group the god stuff with ghosts, I'll head over to some of those threads to check out the garbage floating around

I'm sorry buddy but that just isn't convincing to me, what about how these ghosts are talking. I want to know how you know what wavelength to use, articles showing the tools efficacy. If I listen to static long enough I bet I'll start hearing stuff. Ghost kinda violate the first and second laws...

Where do you think pseudoscience is most prevalent. I would say, antivaccine people, paranormal investigators, alternative medicine. All of these get my blood boiling. I would challeng anyone to convince me that the MMR vaccine is bad or ghosts are real. I love debating this stuff usually...

I'm not too familiar with an EVP but how on earth do you know that the data you gather isn't caused by some extraneous variables. From why little I do know, the tools used to detect stuff is terribly inconsistent and there is no way to determine if it is actually measuring what it says it is...

My favorite quote "That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence" Christopher Hitchens.

Put me in any haunted house, creepy place and I promise I will not see a ghost. I grew up in NOLA and I have been to tons of "haunted" places but never seen a ghost. How does one investigate the paranormal?

So here are three videos from where I call my home town, I just think they are really funny. Maybe you just have to have grown up here to get it?! Post some funny stuff from your hometown/state/whatever Doogie!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7R8umuu7ts&feature=youtube_gdata_player...

Yes, you are correct, some of those may be measurable and societal norms would have a major factor in it. Many of the experiences are subjective as well making it difficult to have consistency. I prob drew this subject way too far off base. I would be interested in reading some studies on how...

My NASCAR, always left hahaha

There is a lot of bad science floating around this website, seriously I can't believe some of the crap people think is fact. To me the rise of pseudoscience is cause by a lack of critical thinking by the masses. I just want to punch people in the teeth when they "well evolution is just a theory"...

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I would say that my sign does a decent job of describing me buy so do about 3 others. What I am saying is it is vague in the sence that you can not measure any of it. What is the cut off between a know-it-all and someone who is a jerk.how do you determine if someone is skilled in persuasion? Is...

How about: All homicides take place either 17 days before or 17 days after a full moon. As for statistics, yes I'm familiar with how easy it is to manipulate them. Fortunately I can usually pick the good stats form the BS ones. Like that jerk who tried to say autism was caused by MMR vaccines...

Beansly- Sorry I didn't mean to make this into a god/not god thing. The horoscopes seem so accurate because it is a sort of cold reading. It has general statements that are vague enough to be interpreted in many ways. That is why it seems accurate. You will never see a horoscope that says "your...

People actually do believe in this stuff as true reality. But believing pseudoscience with bad research can hurt. Take marijuana for instance. Science shows that it's is not harmful like cigarettes and booze. Science shows it can be a medication, yet this is still controversial. So why is pot...

It hurts any progression towards a true understanding of reality. Believing in Astrology means you accept an idea of the way the universe works that is completely unfounded and proven false. It's like if we all believe hamsters ran our cars. You can look at the car carefully and see it isn't run...

No you are wrong. You are saying because we do not understand something at this point in time it must be Devine. Way more reasonable to believe that the holes are waiting to be filled with a simple explanation. As stated before, That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed...

Yeah, maybe. If I recall correctly there are about 10^10^122 possible combinations of how elements can come together in our universe so it may be possible buy extremely implausible. And that is just our universe with our Higgs field blah blah blah. I would eat that peanut M&M too.

Your statement is unrealistic. I can think of many ways of how just buying into pseudoscience can be destructive.

Hmm, is that possible?