randi the harasser

I am a Filipino and I practically fall out of my chair laughing whenever I read Jaime "The Loco" Lichauco's columns. Filipinos, partly because of our Catholic upbringing, fall for this kind of crap. I have written my rants on this guy and will continue to do so
 
I was just wondering about the references that Jaime Lichauco made.

"Randi conveniently failed to comment on scientific experiments by Dr. Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne at Princeton University that proved that certain people did have telekinetic powers."

I guess we can pretty much discount this reference since PEAR's funding has been shut down....

"Before the Princeton University experiments, Dr. J.B. Rhine of Duke University in North Carolina proved the existence of telepathy in repeated controlled experiments beginning in the 1930s."

I guess he is referring to the famous experiment of Dr. Rhine and Hubert Pearce. Was there any rational explanation for this?

"One of the many students tested with the new Zener cards, a sophomore named A.J. Linzmayer,” as reported by Richard Broughton, Ph.D, in his book “Parapsychology, The Controversial Science” (1991, Ballantine Books), “displayed a consistent ability to guess cards better than chance—404 correct out of 1,500 where 300 would be expected by chance. The following year Linzmayer provided another 2,000 trials and continued to guess above chance.”

I couldn't find any reference on Linzmayer in Wikipedia....

"From 1970-1990, physicists Dr. Russell Targ and Dr. Harold Puthoff of the Stanford Research Institute (now called SRI International) in Menlo Park, California, conducted one of the longest experiments on remote viewing [known as traveling clairvoyance] under controlled conditions."

I know that remote viewing has been debunked, but I couldn't find any link to the results of Targ and Puthoff.
 
The second part of Licauco's response is up.

He says that his source for the harassment suit/restraining order story was Geller himself!
 
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The guy obviously hasn't heard of Wikipedia, where at least we can get some objective look at the Randi vs Geller lawsuit.
 
buwayahman said:
I guess he is referring to the famous experiment of Dr. Rhine and Hubert Pearce. Was there any rational explanation for this?
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Plenty. There is good reason that Rhine's results are only mentioned by the woowoo set.

Martin Gardener had perhaps the best summary of the problems. I think it was in 'Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science'.
 
Mojo said:
He says that his source for the harassment suit/restraining order story was Geller himself!
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Jeez, of course he was assuming that Geller was telling him the truth the whole time!

If I had any doubt that Licauco was a credulous old fool, this puts those doubts to rest.
 
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