One can learn the oddest of things in conversations with people you thought you knew.
There's an acquaintance of mine in one of the conglomerated Tech buildings at my school (she works on the same floor as one of my jobs). We normally exchange a few pleasantries, and go on our separate ways. A few days ago, though, we happened to be standing together waiting for our respective tasks to complete themselves, and she started talking to me about this wonderful book she was reading. It was called "Talking to Heaven" by James van Praagh.
This man is a "medium", and, according to James Randi, a fraud.
The woman in question is a scientist. And she believes this shit.
Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, over. Anyone care to explain? Believing in things that can't be proven is fine; I do it myself. But believing in things that can actually be disproven... that just seems silly. I'd love to understand this.
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Most of us believe in lots of things that aren't true, and lots of things that can be disproved. We're not usually forced to face up to the proofs, though. For starters, most of the "history" we learned has been totally revised by experts in the last ten years, but our highschool teachers do not update us with disclaimers.
Next thing you know, they'll be saying that George Washington didn't have wooden teeth.
A simple physics experiment: ask people to walk quickly across a room and, as they pass a waste paper basket, drop a ball into it. People will be roughly divided into three groups: those who feel you have to drop the ball slightly before you reach the basket, exactly as you are over the basket, and slightly after!
Do you have ANY idea how many people believe in the single martingale system of betting? This one's disprovable. the system works like this: You bet $1 on red or black. If you lose, you keep doubling your bet until you win. You've got to win sooner or later, and whenever you do, you'll come out $1 ahead. A tiny fallacy in this system is left to the reader to discover...
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