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xVedun | 5 years ago

I would be curious to see how the author would respond to this fairly detailed criticism of his book: [1] One excerpt from this amazon review goes "If you are impressed by statistics, blips on fMRI screens, taking correlations as proof of causality and meta-analysis as equal to replication, then you might like this book. If you are interested in what wild speculations parapsychologists are coming up with these days, then this is the book for you. If you are looking for evidence that psi is explained by quantum physics, you'll be disappointed."

[1] https://www.amazon.com/review/R2VIDRICPX3ROL/ref=cm_cr_srp_d...

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forgotmypw17|5 years ago

The other day I was riding the train and a guy called me an idiot. Are you also interested in knowing how I responded to his claim?

why did you choose to post that particular review out of all the others? why not, for example, this one?

"Consider the possibly that classical physics is not only wrong but way wrong." "A wild ride through the data supporting psi. I was for many years a reductionist like Michael Shermer. However, after reading more and books like this, my mind has accepted the reality that we know very little about where we came from and what really drives our human..."