More on Schwartz and Dubois

[Stumpy]

This report gives a bit more detail on Schwartz's stunning adherence to impartiality and accepted scientific protocols.

Whilst loathe to cite a tabloid newspaper as an authorative source, Schwartz is quoted in the article. On the other hand what choice do you have with a scientist who pitches everything direct to the tabloids in order to sidestep that tiresome peer review process?

Incidentally, Schwartz gives his reason in the article for not supplying his "afterlife experiments" raw data to Randi as ""This guy is not a scientist - he is a mediocre magician who loves the public eye." Does this not imply that he will give the raw data to another scientist? Do any of our academics on the forum want to ask Schwartz for the raw data and see what excuse he comes up with then?

 

[kookbreaker]

Schwartz has even given up making excuses and long-winded replies that try to garner the sympathy of fence-sitters. He just vomiting the platitudes that give the newage crowd warm fuzzies.

Remember how his "VERITAS" replies to Randi were paragraph after paragraph of Schwartz saying "Randiiscorrect but WE'RE DOING FINE!"

 

[Psiload]

This report gives a bit more detail on Schwartz's stunning adherence to impartiality and accepted scientific protocols.

Whilst loathe to cite a tabloid newspaper as an authorative source, Schwartz is quoted in the article. On the other hand what choice do you have with a scientist who pitches everything direct to the tabloids in order to sidestep that tiresome peer review process?

Incidentally, Schwartz gives his reason in the article for not supplying his "afterlife experiments" raw data to Randi as ""This guy is not a scientist - he is a mediocre magician who loves the public eye." Does this not imply that he will give the raw data to another scientist? Do any of our academics on the forum want to ask Schwartz for the raw data and see what excuse he comes up with then?

Richard Wisemann asked for it. He did a critique of Schwart's "experiments" which was published in The Skeptical Inquirer.

He mentioned triying to obtain Schwart's raw data. He got the same as Randi...

bupkis.

 

[IXP]

This is just too good. From the Schwartz interview:

Schwartz first put Dubois through a direct, informal reading on himself. A beloved mentor of his had just died, but he told her nothing about that woman.

Among other things, Dubois told Schwartz "the deceased was telling me that I must share the following - I don't walk alone," a seemingly innocuous piece of information, but critical to him.

"My friend had been confined to a wheelchair in her last years - there is no way Allison could have known that," he said.

How could could any reasonable person interpret the idiomatic phrase "I don't walk alone", meaning that others share my convictions, to mean "I am confiined to a wheelchair"? Could it be because a miss becomes a hit that way? No, this man is a scientist, he couldn't be that naive...

IXP

 

[Ashles]

It's odd isn't it as "I don't walk alone" almost specifically says that the person does walk.

If someone said in print or on the phone "I don't walk alone" you would never take that to mean they were in a wheelchair or had any walking difficulties.

Schwartz should stick to making spices.

 

[Kopji]

The Arizona Daily Star is not a tabloid, just a Tuscon regional daily paper similar to the Arizona Daily Sun for Flagstaff. They are owned by Pulitzer Publishing.

They might seem tabloid by printing stuff from such as Schwartz.

On april 8, 1971, the Star was sold to the Pulitzer Publishing Company, and Michael E. Pulitzer became the new editor and publisher. He is a grandson of Joseph Pulitzer, the founder of the famous Pulitzer Prizes, who also owned and operated the New York World and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Mr. Pulitzer continues as the publisher of the Arizona Daily Star.

The following link shows that Schwartz's UofA activities are funded by public tax dollars. Complaints can be sent to the Arizona Board of Regents.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/jlbc/02_03app/unibor.pdf

 

[CFLarsen]

Schwartz first put Dubois through a direct, informal reading on himself.

This is why Schwartz is a fraud. He did the same thing during the Abominable Arizona Experiments.

If you are running the experiments, you can't participate!

Schwartz knows this (he holds 2 Ph.D's), but he chooses to ignore it.

 

[Stumpy]

Oh boy! Now don't all rush, but Scwartz has produced (what he claims to be) a full transcript of a Dubois reading where Schwartz was the "proxy-sitter". What's more the "deceased" speaking through Dubois was Montague Keene. Read the full transcript here

 

[steenkh]

It's odd isn't it as "I don't walk alone" almost specifically says that the person does walk.

Of course the person walks. She is dead, and is no more confined to her wheelchair. So you see, it is actually an uncanny description of a dead person that used to sit in a wheelchair. A normal dead person could not have fitted that description

 

[Psiload]

Oh boy! Now don't all rush, but Scwartz has produced (what he claims to be) a full transcript of a Dubois reading where Schwartz was the "proxy-sitter". What's more the "deceased" speaking through Dubois was Montague Keene. Read the full transcript here

That may very well be the silliest thing I have ever seen.

Ridiculous... even for Schwartz.

This guy is a one trick pony.