The Girl with "X-ray" vision

I think we may need to coin the Zammit Magnet Effect: Victor Zammit collects more whackjobs per square inch than almost any other whackjob.

~~ Paul
 
It's his round the clock nut collecting that makes him what I call the "Squirrel of the Paranormal."
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Wickedness at Wikipedia

If there are any contributers to Wikipedia here, I could use your help. One of the most active kooks who has been conducting more than a year-long campaign of disinformation and defamation against Richard Wiseman, Ray Hyman , and me has just vandalized the Wikipedia entry for Natasha Demkina with the kind of disinformation and malicious deceit that he has been posting on the Museum of Hoaxes and other web sites.

I've posted a protest about this defamation and vandalization of the entry and asked Wiki mediators to intervene. If any reader here contributes to Wikipedia, perhaps you can also help.

-Andrew
 
askolnick said:
If there are any contributers to Wikipedia here, I could use your help. One of the most active kooks who has been conducting more than a year-long campaign of disinformation and defamation against Richard Wiseman, Ray Hyman , and me has just vandalized the Wikipedia entry for Natasha Demkina with the kind of disinformation and malicious deceit that he has been posting on the Museum of Hoaxes and other web sites.

I've posted a protest about this defamation and vandalization of the entry and asked Wiki mediators to intervene. If any reader here contributes to Wikipedia, perhaps you can also help.

-Andrew
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Richard Wiseman is a bit of an idiot. Not Ray Hyman though.
 
askolnick said:
If there are any contributers to Wikipedia here, I could use your help. One of the most active kooks who has been conducting more than a year-long campaign of disinformation and defamation against Richard Wiseman, Ray Hyman , and me has just vandalized the Wikipedia entry for Natasha Demkina with the kind of disinformation and malicious deceit that he has been posting on the Museum of Hoaxes and other web sites.

I've posted a protest about this defamation and vandalization of the entry and asked Wiki mediators to intervene. If any reader here contributes to Wikipedia, perhaps you can also help.

-Andrew
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I've watchlisted it but I'm a bit short of time right now.
 
Ian said:
Richard Wiseman is a bit of an idiot.
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Especially now that the third round of experiments with Schlitz turned up with no experimenter effect. That darn experimenter effect was going to be the next big thing in psi.

~~ Paul
 
Paul-Of-The-Interminable-Last-Name:

Do you have a link to that study?

I only ask because I want to stroke my own ego. I had a lenghty thread with Open Mind last spring (I think) about the first experiment and pointed out flaws. I'd like to see how I'm vindicated and then nominate myself for a It-Means-Nothing-But-Makes-Me-Feel-Good-Award.
 
Garrette, I have the paper but can't post it yet. If you PM me your email address, I have permission to send it to you.

You'll be a bit disappointed, though. It does not include any hypothesis on why Schlitz failed to get results this time.

~~ Paul
 
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos said:
Garrette, I have the paper but can't post it yet. If you PM me your email address, I have permission to send it to you.

You'll be a bit disappointed, though. It does not include any hypothesis on why Schlitz failed to get results this time.

~~ Paul
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Any possibility of obtaining permission to send it to me as well?
 
Jeff Corey said:
As a matter of fact it does. It makes you a poseur who judges a person with scientific training and a proven track record in investigating claims for the paranormal to be an idiot.
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No, Ian is actually right.

It doesn't make him anything. In other words, nothing.
 
Jeff Corey said:
As a matter of fact it does. It makes you a poseur who judges a person with scientific training and a proven track record in investigating claims for the paranormal to be an idiot.
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He's made many idiotic statements which have nothing whatsoever to do with his skill at investigating the paranormal eg his argument he made against reincarnation for one. Also stating this alleged ghost looked like it really could be the real thing at last when it was a painfully obvious hoax (and I suspect he said this so then when it was eventually revealed to be a hoax, there would be yet more evidence against the existence of ghosts since if he -- an avowed skeptic -- thought this was a plausible candidate for a genuine ghost, but it transpired not to be, then a fortiori how less unlikely are other alleged instances of ghosts?)

I know nothing about his skill at investigating the paranormal although I remember that Sheldrake had a few complaints about Wiseman's investigations regarding the dog who allegedly knew when its owner was coming home.
 
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Interesting Ian said:
He's made many idiotic statements which have nothing whatsoever to do with his skill at investigating the paranormal eg his argument he made against reincarnation for one.
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Which is? References?

Interesting Ian said:
Also stating this alleged ghost looked like it really could be the real thing at last when it was a painfully obvious hoax (and I suspect he said this so then when it was eventually revealed to be a hoax, there would be yet more evidence against the existence of ghosts since if he -- an avowed skeptic -- thought this was a plausible candidate for a genuine ghost, but it transpired not to be, then a fortiori how less unlikely are other alleged instances of ghosts?)
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What ghost? References?

Interesting Ian said:
I know nothing about his skill at investigating the paranormal although I remember that Sheldrake had a few complaints about Wiseman's investigations regarding the dog who allegedly knew when its owner was coming home.
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Then I suggest you read a bit about Wiseman before you criticize him.
 
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