Thank you for raising your concerns, although I feel that they are mostly based on prejudice from how other paranormal claimants have behaved in the past and do not apply to me personally. You are speculating about what kind of person I am and what I will do with my claims. Paranormal claims can be harmful when used carelessly or to exploit people, but if they are in the hands of a responsible person there is no need for concern. As a chemistry student I can safely handle dangerous chemicals, but someone else might cause harm to themselves or others. It all depends on who you are and how you handle what you have.
I am prepared to fail the IIG Preliminary because that way if or when I do fail, it will not come as a surprise or even a disappointment. Also because in the end I do believe in science and what I have done should not be possible. Even though I did it. If the media or Skeptics decide to have a field day with that then I grant you that. It is fun to see science and skepticism triumph and I am sure that's always a reason for celebration. I hope I make it to
The Soup. They know how to make fun of people.
I will not have a career in woo. I am a science student and headed toward a career in science. I maintain a clear distinction between what are my personal experiences, and what is practice of science. Science is based on objective, mutually agreeable fact, and has no place for my personal experiences of colors, shapes, medical perceptions, or emotions. Some of you like to say that my paranormal investigation might have ruined my reputation and future career, but I doubt that. The claims are all based on personal experiences and I have investigated those in the name of scientific curiosity. It has also been an interesting social experiment to observe what is involved in a paranormal claim and its investigation.
I have no fan club of any sort. Sometimes a woo will write to me to engage in talk about how bad Skeptics are or how wonderful us woos are, but I always explain that I consider myself a Skeptic and that my claims have not been verified and are likely to be falsified, and that takes the fun out of it for them and I do not hear from them again. I don't need a fan club, what I am doing is intended to be a contribution to Skepticism, not to the paranormal.
Unfortunately I did detect the missing kidney but I chose to not write it down. That is the truth of it, and it is not a false memory. I strongly dislike the accusations of mental illness or being called a liar and I would never fabricate this story to endure all of this. I am honestly describing an experience that should not have been possible and that is why this is a paranormal claim.
You fail to see what the migraine treatment claim is, where it comes from, or what I am doing with it. The claim is made by the man whom I attempted to treat. He claims a dramatic improvement, and so I am interested in investigating that claim this time with a Skeptic. The goal is to falsify that claim and to provide a documented example of a falsified healing claim.
The fact that some of you expect me to be a typical woo and you make false accusations that you hold full belief in, takes something away from you as Skeptics, because your personal expectations are clouding your ability to be objective and to see the truth. So, in a sense, you are merely expressing what are your personal opinions and hoping that by calling yourselves Skeptics you gain exclusive rights to have
your opinions regarded more highly. That is just like being a woo, you are making claims that are not true and that have not been proven. You make predictions on my character and my behavior, and that, in itself, is a paranormal claim and I urge you all to apply to the JREF MDC with that claim.
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