sorry this went to just Marie first go, not whole list
from SSOTBME, Lionel Snell, one of the *best* books
i've ever read about how
to compare science and magic
science hates the fleeting singularity, it revolves around test-repaet
validity, and magic cannot then be scientific, or often open to
scientific
testing as for the most part it involves one-offs (that is my clumsy
precis,
not a quote - the book is far more elegant)
Randi is as dogmatic and (oddly enough 'religious'- about his
scepticism) as
any pro-psychic powers spokesperson, or as Richard Dawkins is that there
is no
god.
I've spoken to Mr Geller on the phone and he's among the people i'd put
on a
list of 'those who have got something really special' who i've met.
Robert
Lenkiewicz the (late) artist and probable magician was another. But how
to
define that and do anything with it within a scientific framework? Hard -
and
i'm a trained scientist; started out life in biomedics, which is test,
retest,
support hypothesis stuff...
Dave E
