There still is the possibility that ET have visited earth already, and we've simply missed them. I don't understand why the majority of scientists remove this ...
... Cetainly this is possible, but doesn't seem particularly plausible. You have to make a bunch of additional hypotheses to make this work. They may well have...
... Though there is no persuasive evidence that ET's have visited Earth, I don't think this is a convincing argument that they haven't done so. We could easily...
Well, one can speculate all one wants, but this being a skeptic's board, I say prove it.. Btw, isn't Science Fiction sometimes referred to as Speculative...
... I don't know, but what has that to do with it? Though science fiction occasionally has made accurate predictions about the future (Asimov chose the name...
Sorry. Don't mean to come off arrogant. It's just that some of the posts in this thread sound more suitable for a science fiction board than a skeptics forum. ...
It may also be that intelligent life evolves fairly often, but that there are disaster scenarios that crop up in technological societies to prevent them from...
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Here's a little hot air, and not to be taken very seriously: Has any science fiction writer ever written about ETs as non-intelligent life forms, such as...
Evidently you haven't read Andromada Strain yet. It talks about exactly that. Fact is, if alien life succeeds in breaching the gulf of space and reaching us it...
Hello again Monica I have been collecting a whole lot of information on NLP being a pseudoscientific subject. I was wondering, do you know if any bodies of...
Hi Krish, As far as I know, none of the professional bodies such as the APA do any kind of official classification of therapies as pseudoscience. What APA does...
Philosophical manifest What do you believe in? A singular, all controlling God? A universe based on well defined rules? I may say that such beliefs are void,...
Hello, Richard Monvoisin, from Observatoire Zététique, France. Have someone ever heard about Antonio Bru, a madrilan mathematician who drown a theory on...
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Nov 6, 2005 11:46 pm
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... There are limits to what intelligence can do, and you seem to fail to realize that. To perceive, to conceive, to will, and to do, are all different things....
Hi Richard, Send this matter to the Healthfraud Discussion List - http://www.quackwatch.org/00AboutQuackwatch/discuss.html You will need to join first. ...
Sorry, haven't heard of him. Do you know if his work was published in any peer-reviewed journal? This seems like the best measure of the quality of his...
Thanks much Monica Helpful stuff once again. I found this article that states the BPA identified NLP as "quintessential charlatanry". Lovely phrase:) ...
What is NLP? Tanya ... From: skeptics-forum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:skeptics-forum@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of krishsingh1066 Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005...
I've been following this alien footage story. This guy Matchen claims that he made contact with the russian scientist and received a letter and a photo. This...
Hi Tanya NLP is a kind of mind programming technique/s. NLP is based on a set of truisms; Neuro refers to neurons (engrams:) emotions and motivations affect...
Hmmm...Thanks for the info. I'm in an APA accredited clinical psychology doctoral program and I've never heard of this. I wonder if any of my profs have heard...
... Hi Tanya -- I'm not surprised, since due to their lack of scientific rigor and grandiose unsupported claims, understandably, NLP is not well respected by...
Hello, A little while back I had an idea and want to share it. Please feel free to e-mail me your thoughts and opinions. I have not made any pics yet so I hope...
Thats interesting Tanya I don't know how much counseling practice you have had, but you may notice that NLP uses some extremely simplistic "pragmatic" methods....
Pat Robertson is in the news again: "I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God. You just rejected...
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Matchen has put up a site. You gotta check this out. He's starting to make a believer out of me. http://www.geocities.com/kbat_alien_footage_investigation...
I hope you aren't serious. There is not a scrap of evidence on the site that this video is genuine. The person who has posted this evidence is keeping his...
Dear All, I would just like to note that the "photograph" of sleeping/hibernating aliens on this site diplays noticeable ghosting, akin to that often seen on...