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Originally posted by AlienMike
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Even though he has an interest in the paranormal doesn't mean he can be discredited as a reliable source because of it.
...People don't get to put an accredited "Dr." in front of their name by being ignorant and insane.
There have been many accounts and testimonies of people claiming to be healed by energy work and other similar 'miraculous' phenomena.
Science has a hard time even attempting to validate the phenomena because they have to base their research on what is observable, and there are a lot of possible ways someone could have healed in an instance like Dr. Mitchell's. He had a lump that indicated cancer, wasn't biopsied to confirm cancer, but the lump went away without traditional medical treatment.
It is also very hard to control experiments in paranormal fields.
Originally posted by AlienMike
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In the case of spirit healing, what would you do, gather up several hunderd cancer patients? several thousand? setup the control group etc.; do you do nothing with the control group or offer placebo spirit healers. both? Make sure none of them change their diet or seek additional treatment? Make sure that there are not disbeivers/negative attitudes involved in the staff that conducts the experiment. Is it possible that someone's negativity could interfere with the healers ability on some quantum level if the phenomena was real? I still say it is going to be much harder to control the aspects of a truly scientific paranormal statistical analasis compared to something in our observable universe. I am assuming that the same statistical rate of recovery would be acceptable when comparing conventional medicine and the paranormal experiment?
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A doctorate does add to credibility in general. Unless there is more "funny business" than what I have seen so far he still seems credible considering him cumulatively. Am I defending a total loon?! If so show me the evidence so I can stop defending him immediately.
I made an assumption that he had to pass a psych exam to get on that rocket and weighed that along with what I knew and could infer about him.
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His statements do seem to continute to get attention right?
Originally posted by mnrndf
They've already taken over. Many of the humans you see are not humans. Those that once were, have been absorbed into octopi-tendrel like spiritual structures.