Re: [escepticos] Artículo en revista científica sobre percepción extrasensorial

[Pedro J. Hdez]

Bob Park como siempre cachondo pero rotundo

3. ESP: THIS IS ABOUT THE LAST THING SCIENCE NEEDED.
Four years ago when the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research lab (PEAR)
closed its doors after 28 years, scientists saw the closing as a sign of
progress. The public had lost interest in the make-believe science of ESP.
Not a single accomplishment marks the existence of the world's most famous
ESP laboratory. ESP today exists only in second-rate science fiction.
That's where it belongs. However, according to an article by Benedict Carey
on the front page of yesterday's New York Times, a respected psychology
journal plans to publish a paper described by the author as "strong
evidence for extrasensory perception."  How strong?  Extraordinary claims,
it is often said, require extraordinary evidence.  Any evidence of ESP
would qualify as extraordinary today.  I have not yet seen the paper, but I
have gone through the exercise of trying to imagine evidence for ESP I
would find persuasive.  I couldn't even come close.

saludos

Pedro J.

El día 7 de enero de 2011 17:55, Carlos Dominguez
<neuroglia.esceptica en gmail.com> escribió:
> Douglas Hofstadter (el autor de Gödel, Escher, Bach:una eterno bucle
> dorado"), a propósito del paper mencionado , escribe un artículo de
> opinión en el NYT criticando duramente que los journals científicos
> publiquen "investigaciones ESP".
> "...then all bets would be off about the laws of physics, for the laws
> of physics are simply not compatible with such a finding.
> This is essentially what is happening in the case of Professor Bem's
> article. If any of his claims were true, then all of the bases
> underlying contemporary science would be toppled, and we would have to
> rethink everything about the nature of the universe. For that reason,
> publishing an article like this is a very serious act, and it reveals
> that the editors are unlikely to have understood what the implications
> of such an article are."
>
> El artículo completo:
> http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/06/the-esp-study-when-science-goes-psychic/a-cutoff-for-craziness
>
> Saludetes
> Carolus
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> El día 6 de enero de 2011 15:35, Ismael Pérez Fernández
> <hiparco en telefonica.net> escribió:
>> Por si sirve de algo, el factor de impacto de la revista JOURNAL OF
>> PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY es de 4,7.
>>
>> El 06/01/2011, a las 12:43, Francisco Hernández escribió:
>>
>>> ESP ha aceptado publicar un artículo en el que "se describen pruebas
>>> fehacientes de la realidad de la percepción extrasensorial". El siguiente
>>> link es la noticia del New York Times:
>>>
>>> <
>>>
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/science/06esp.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23
>>>>
>>>
>>> Este es un link a una precopia del artículo: <
>>> http://dbem.ws/FeelingFuture.pdf>
>>>
>>> No lo he leído aún, aunque con mi poca idea de psicología fijo que no
>>> pillo
>>> el truco XD. ¿Para empezar, cual es el impacto de ESP? ¿Es realmente
>>> seria?
>>>
>>> Saludos
>>>
>>> --
>>> Francisco J. Hernández
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>>
>> Ismael Pérez Fernández.
>> http://hominidos.blogspot.com/
>>
>> "No existe fe alguna, por respetable que sea, ni interés alguno, por
>> legítimo que sea, que no deba adaptarse al progreso del conocimiento humano
>> e inclinarse ante la verdad."
>> Paul Broca
>>
>>
>>
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