Re: DCP goes all-in on pseudo scientific quackery
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2024 4:42 am
The paper is a complete joke. Here’s as close as it gets to anything of substance:
The bold part is what you say when you have weak evidence and don’t want to even bother to mention it, lest your critics find out how quickly it collapses under the slightest scrutiny.Jeanne Achterberg’s studies in Hawaii showed changes in the brain of the recipients towards whom a healer has expressed therapeutic intention.
“Each healer selected a person with whom they felt a special connection as a recipient for Therapeutic Intention. Each recipient was placed in the MRI scanner and isolated from all forms of sensory contact from the healer. The healers sent forms of (TI) that related to their own healing practices at random 2-minute intervals that were unknown to the recipient. Significant differences between experimental (send) and control (no send) procedures were found (p = 0.000127). Areas activated during the experimental procedures included the anterior and middle cingulate area, precuneus, and frontal area. It was concluded that instructions to a healer to make an intentional connection with a sensory isolated person can be
correlated to changes in brain function of that individual.”[18]
Let me stress these are but two series of studies chosen from a large and growing corpus of peer-reviewed research, these chosen because they clearly illustrate the point.
III. What is the Standard of Proof?
Today there are eight stabilized parapsychological protocols used in laboratories around the world. Each of them has independently produced 6 sigma results. Six sigma is one in 1,009,976,678 or the 99.9999990699 percentile.[19],[20] Those that have been analyzed in detail are:
Nonlocal Perception:
RV: Remote viewing
Presentiment
The Bem Future Feeling Protocol
Retrocognition/ precognition
Nonlocal Perturbation:
REG: Random event generator
GCP: Global consciousness project