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re: Five year old savant may be telephathic. Is being researched by scientists
Posted on 11/5/15 at 7:35 pm to Rex
Posted on 11/5/15 at 7:35 pm to Rex
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James Randi has a million bucks waiting for him if he's telepathic.
My prediction? He won't be getting a million bucks from James Randi.
I seem to remember that Randi became well known after exposing Yuri Geller, who also convinced reputable scientists into believing he actually had telekinesis abilities. One of the scientist involved refused to believe he was tricked saying "we are trained observers and would know if something was fake."
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Posted on 11/5/15 at 7:58 pm to mizzoukills
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You say that with certainty. So if legitimately high regarded scientists research him and say he's 100 percent telepathic...you'll dispute that?
I will. The Randi Foundation has been offering a million dollars to anyone with proof of psychic abilities. No one has been able to claim it yet.
Sorry. Telepathy does not exist at this time.
Posted on 11/5/15 at 8:00 pm to EA6B
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I seem to remember that Randi became well known after exposing Yuri Geller, who also convinced reputable scientists into believing he actually had telekinesis abilities. One of the scientist involved refused to believe he was tricked saying "we are trained observers and would know if something was fake."
He also had two proteges go through testing at Stanford. They practically begged them to catch them and gave them every opportunity, but the scientists were going to publish the paper anyway until Randi stopped them and told them what was up.
They still didn't believe him.
Posted on 11/5/15 at 8:04 pm to mizzoukills
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correctly recounts the value and suits of playing cards,
Posted on 11/5/15 at 8:12 pm to BiggerBear
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Think about it, you need some mechanism of transferring information between two brains without using any of the 6 senses
Electric signals at close range between brains. Our brains are basically machines. Giant wads of electric conducting material functioning like a highly efficient microchip, and your body is basically a giant organic antenna.
This post was edited on 11/5/15 at 8:14 pm
Posted on 11/5/15 at 8:15 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
1. This kid is not a "savant"
2. This "Scientist" is either a fool or a scam artist
3. The mom is a liar
4. Telepathy doesn't exist
2. This "Scientist" is either a fool or a scam artist
3. The mom is a liar
4. Telepathy doesn't exist
Posted on 11/6/15 at 7:58 am to buckeye_vol
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Not to mention, the so called "expert" miscalculated the odds of getting 3 out of 5 correct. She said it was 1/729 when that would be the probability of 3 out of 3.
The true probability is > 1%, and that's assuming no cues that he could have picked up on, wheth
Stick to simple math 1+1
Ok kindergarten teacher.
Posted on 11/6/15 at 8:04 am to mizzoukills
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correctly recounts the value and suits of playing cards, as well as numbers that were reportedly penned out of sight
I'm calling bullshite. I could film my 6 year old "recounting" numbers I wrote down and told her off camera
stupid story is stupid
Posted on 11/6/15 at 8:46 am to musick
Supposedly Randy will be making an official announcement about this kid next week...
Posted on 11/6/15 at 9:02 am to PurpleandGold Motown
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The Randi Foundation has been offering a million dollars to anyone with proof of psychic abilities. No one has been able to claim it yet.
Not only that but people have tried, failed, sued Randi, and lost. Randi has also exposed frauds unrelated his challenge who then sued him, lost, and were later convicted of fraud in criminal proceedings after what was revealed in the civil cases.
There are hucksters everywhere and there always has been because there's a sucker born every minute.
There's no such thing as telepathy. If anyone could remote view, move objects with their mind, or communicate telepathically, there's a million dollars they could easily obtain for very little work from Randi. I don't think it makes sense to assume that magical abilities come with an allergy to money.
This post was edited on 11/6/15 at 9:04 am
Posted on 11/6/15 at 9:21 am to Cooter Davenport
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If anyone could remote view
The US military and the Russian military disagrees with you
Posted on 11/6/15 at 9:36 am to EA6B
His mom has some nice hammers
Posted on 11/6/15 at 9:45 am to ctiger69
quote:Are you disagreeing that the probability of correctly guessing 3 out of 5 (A-9) is slight greater than 1%? Because we can go step-by-step through the binomial theorem, if it would help you.
Stick to simple math 1+1
Ok kindergarten teacher.
This post was edited on 11/6/15 at 10:00 am
Posted on 11/6/15 at 9:47 am to Displaced
quote:She was just thinking to herself: "I wish he'd rub my tah-tahs right now".
what he appears to be doing is grabbing titties.
Posted on 11/6/15 at 9:48 am to mizzoukills
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telephathic
Does that mean all the voices he hears in his head come with a lisp?
Posted on 11/6/15 at 10:25 am to mizzoukills
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The US military and the Russian military disagrees with you
No they don't. Neither the US military nor the Russian military makes use of persons with magical "remote viewing" abilities. You've listened to too much Coast to Coast.
Posted on 11/6/15 at 10:31 am to buckeye_vol
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buckeye_vol
Good one HIV teacher.
Talk in the other thread. Don't troll here and ruin this one too.
This post was edited on 11/6/15 at 10:42 am
Posted on 11/6/15 at 10:44 am to Breesus
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Electric signals at close range between brains. Our brains are basically machines. Giant wads of electric conducting material functioning like a highly efficient microchip, and your body is basically a giant organic antenna.
This. People better hope this kid is a fraud, because if he isn't we're one step closer to technology being able to read our thoughts. The last thing we need is Google Glass version 10 letting others know what you're thinking.
Posted on 11/6/15 at 10:47 am to Breesus
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Electric signals at close range between brains. Our brains are basically machines. Giant wads of electric conducting material functioning like a highly efficient microchip, and your body is basically a giant organic antenna.
No. Electric signals need conductors. Think plausible next time.
Posted on 11/6/15 at 12:31 pm to TigerinATL
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People better hope this kid is a fraud, because if he isn't we're one step closer to technology being able to read our thoughts. The last thing we need is Google Glass version 10 letting others know what you're thinking.
How would natural psychic ability influence mind reading technology? I believe we will have direct brain to brain communication technology sometime soon and it wont require anyone to be psychic.
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