Third_Density_Resident
Jedi Council Member
I recently watched a program about telepathy, one episode in a series called Naked Science. Had I known in advance that it was a National Geographic production, I probably would have avoided watching it, since their track record is one of disinformation and pseudoskepticism. However when I began watching it, the show looked quite objective and promising. Later on I realised that this supposed objectivity was nothing more than a set-up to ensnare the unsuspecting viewer into thinking that whatever conclusion the program arrived at in the end would be scientifically sound and accurate. Which is the way most of these disinformation programs operate.
In the program, they conducted a series of experiments to do with telepathy. Many of the experiments have been performed rigorously countless times before in true laboratory conditions with positive results, but of course the show was not about presenting these findings; rather it was about trying to do its own experiments to show authoritatively whether telepathy is real (it already has been shown to be so, as I mentioned).
Each of the five experiments, to my mind, yielded results which were highly suggestive of PSI phenomena taking place. While the narration acknowledged some of this significance, it never failed to plant little seeds of doubt in the viewer with its constant, repetitive suggestion, "but this could all just be coincidence". The word "dubious" was thrown around without justification also. These negative seeds of doubt were sown despite an interview with a former hard-nosed skeptic who himself eventually arrived at the conclusion that telepathic phenomena must be real because in all his years of studies and counter-arguments, there was nothing else that could explain the "anomalies" . But even after FIVE quite rigorous experiments were done in the program, ALL of which had similar findings, they were still harping about "coincidence" being a very possible element. What are the chances of doing five completely separate and independent experiments, each of which yields results suggestive of PSI? This is the main problem with skeptics: they so often fails to take a holistic approach and examine results collectively. It's akin to dismissing every reliable UFO anecdote (that is, from reliable, well-respected people) individually as nothing more than "a planet" or "a comet" or whatever non-UFO object you can think of, and not stepping back and realising that collectively, these reliable anecdotes point to the very strong possibility of there being many bizarre objects in our sky which mainstream science simply cannot fathom at present. But this is not even a fair analogy, because the results of PSI are not about anecdotes, they are about hard data. And there are countless experiments which have come up with the HARD DATA proving that PSI is real.
At the end of the program, the narrator claims that the findings of experiments into telepathy are not at all scientific, and that as a result, research into telepathy would remain on the fringe (in other words, would never become scientific). The program wants viewers to come away with the impression that because the findings they came up with are not, and cannot be, scientific, telepathy and PSI as whole can’t be real, and hence PSI is most likely a load of rubbish. What is so disingenuous about this National Geographic program is the fact that there was not a single mention of the numerous experiments which have already been conducted over the years into PSI, most of which have yielded positive results. Viewers are misled into thinking that the program is an authority on PSI, when in actuality nothing could be further from the truth.
In the program, they conducted a series of experiments to do with telepathy. Many of the experiments have been performed rigorously countless times before in true laboratory conditions with positive results, but of course the show was not about presenting these findings; rather it was about trying to do its own experiments to show authoritatively whether telepathy is real (it already has been shown to be so, as I mentioned).
Each of the five experiments, to my mind, yielded results which were highly suggestive of PSI phenomena taking place. While the narration acknowledged some of this significance, it never failed to plant little seeds of doubt in the viewer with its constant, repetitive suggestion, "but this could all just be coincidence". The word "dubious" was thrown around without justification also. These negative seeds of doubt were sown despite an interview with a former hard-nosed skeptic who himself eventually arrived at the conclusion that telepathic phenomena must be real because in all his years of studies and counter-arguments, there was nothing else that could explain the "anomalies" . But even after FIVE quite rigorous experiments were done in the program, ALL of which had similar findings, they were still harping about "coincidence" being a very possible element. What are the chances of doing five completely separate and independent experiments, each of which yields results suggestive of PSI? This is the main problem with skeptics: they so often fails to take a holistic approach and examine results collectively. It's akin to dismissing every reliable UFO anecdote (that is, from reliable, well-respected people) individually as nothing more than "a planet" or "a comet" or whatever non-UFO object you can think of, and not stepping back and realising that collectively, these reliable anecdotes point to the very strong possibility of there being many bizarre objects in our sky which mainstream science simply cannot fathom at present. But this is not even a fair analogy, because the results of PSI are not about anecdotes, they are about hard data. And there are countless experiments which have come up with the HARD DATA proving that PSI is real.
At the end of the program, the narrator claims that the findings of experiments into telepathy are not at all scientific, and that as a result, research into telepathy would remain on the fringe (in other words, would never become scientific). The program wants viewers to come away with the impression that because the findings they came up with are not, and cannot be, scientific, telepathy and PSI as whole can’t be real, and hence PSI is most likely a load of rubbish. What is so disingenuous about this National Geographic program is the fact that there was not a single mention of the numerous experiments which have already been conducted over the years into PSI, most of which have yielded positive results. Viewers are misled into thinking that the program is an authority on PSI, when in actuality nothing could be further from the truth.