Re: Mother Goose Prophecies

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sat Jul 08 2000 - 19:47:30 MDT


Fair Critique, but lets train the same skeptical eye upon how Skeptic and
Skeptical Enquirer might view Extropianism and TransHumanism. It should give
us all a moments pause.

In a message dated 7/8/00 10:27:33 AM Pacific Daylight Time, GBurch1@aol.com
writes:

<< This points to a general problem with debunking ju-ju: There's no money in
 it. Aside from CSICOP and their magazine the Skeptical Inquirer and and few
 books, there is no real forum for dubunking and very little SYSTEMATIC
 checking of "prophecies" and other clap-trap. Systematically collecting,
 checking the claims of "prophets" and "psychics" and publicizing the
results
 would be a hugely expensive and difficult undertaking. Worse, sensible
 people know that there isn't any good that comes from such an endeavor other
 than the frustrating one of trying to stem the tide of irrationality in the
 world. >>



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