Apr 8 2013: You are presenting these links to support your contention that the WestHollywood speakers are presenting pseudoscience. They are your argument, which is still without any substance.
Apr 8 2013: You are very passionate about your views, Mr. Hoopes, but a consistent theme in your posts is to make a lot of declarative statements, but provide no proof that they apply in this case.
If TED can't provide proof, and you, such a passionate supporter of TED can't provide proof, then the debate is effective over. Verdict: unpersuaded that TED acted scientifically and in good faith.
Apr 6 2013: This whole affair has concluded with quite possibly the worst possible outcome for skeptics.
1. The speakers were supposed to be trivialized, but the exact opposite happened.
2. The Westhollywood event was supposed to be shut down, but now it's happening and has national publicity by being banned by TED.
3. It was supposed to improve the TED brand, but instead it continues to get dragged through the mud.
4. The debate which was supposedly about pseudoscience raised a lot of awareness for the unfair way psi is treated.
5. As an added bonus it raised the profile and influence of the blogger, me, most responsible for reporting on this catastrophe.
Apr 5 2013: The problem here is the definition of woo. So far, the only woo I see is coming from the skeptics, who don't deal with the evidence. All I see is faith and belief without any scientific inquiry.
Apr 4 2013: All the talk in the world won't make the psi studies go away.
We are not her to talk about the Shroud of Turin.
Just deal with the evidence and spare me the preaching.
Although by now, I'm guessing that you have never seen the evidence, have no idea what it is and pretty much try to hide that fact by changing the subject or blindly deriding it.
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A reply on Conversation: Discuss the note to the TED community on the withdrawal of the TEDxWestHollywood license.
A reply on Conversation: Discuss the note to the TED community on the withdrawal of the TEDxWestHollywood license.
A reply on Conversation: Discuss the note to the TED community on the withdrawal of the TEDxWestHollywood license.
A reply on Conversation: Discuss the note to the TED community on the withdrawal of the TEDxWestHollywood license.
If TED can't provide proof, and you, such a passionate supporter of TED can't provide proof, then the debate is effective over. Verdict: unpersuaded that TED acted scientifically and in good faith.
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TED has provided no proof of its claims of pseudoscience. Therefore the claim is invalid until such evidence is produced.
This requires disproving all the thousands of studies that are the parapsychology evidence. Good luck with that.
A reply on Conversation: Discuss the note to the TED community on the withdrawal of the TEDxWestHollywood license.
1. The speakers were supposed to be trivialized, but the exact opposite happened.
2. The Westhollywood event was supposed to be shut down, but now it's happening and has national publicity by being banned by TED.
3. It was supposed to improve the TED brand, but instead it continues to get dragged through the mud.
4. The debate which was supposedly about pseudoscience raised a lot of awareness for the unfair way psi is treated.
5. As an added bonus it raised the profile and influence of the blogger, me, most responsible for reporting on this catastrophe.
And that's winning?
A reply on Conversation: Discuss the note to the TED community on the withdrawal of the TEDxWestHollywood license.
It's obvious that a skeptic coup has taken place.
A reply on Conversation: Discuss the note to the TED community on the withdrawal of the TEDxWestHollywood license.
A reply on Conversation: Discuss the note to the TED community on the withdrawal of the TEDxWestHollywood license.
We are not her to talk about the Shroud of Turin.
Just deal with the evidence and spare me the preaching.
Although by now, I'm guessing that you have never seen the evidence, have no idea what it is and pretty much try to hide that fact by changing the subject or blindly deriding it.
A reply on Conversation: Discuss the note to the TED community on the withdrawal of the TEDxWestHollywood license.