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To: Sherman Logan
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

No, actually they don't. The same criteria apply to all science phenomena. This phrase originated among the career skeptics to put down science-based research into paranormal phenomena. It has zip to do with legitimate science.

"But I’m more than willing to be convinced if that evidence is supplied.

One well-done experiment (or series of experiments) and one replication of those experiments at a different lab are all that is necessary.

35 posted on 03/14/2013 7:01:39 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: Wonder Warthog
The same criteria apply to all science phenomena.

Disagree. Displacing a well-grounded scientific consensus with a totally new explanation of observed phenomena requires, and IMO should require, more solid evidence than a claim with less evidence already in existence on the other side.

36 posted on 03/14/2013 7:08:51 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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No, actually they don't. The same criteria apply to all science phenomena. This phrase originated among the career skeptics to put down science-based research into paranormal phenomena. It has zip to do with legitimate science.

What a coincidence. Cold fusion also has zip to do with legitimate science.

39 posted on 03/14/2013 7:35:28 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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