Last time, I used: “Anybody need anything while I’m out?” and that went over well. May not make it through this surgery on Friday, so I turn to Lemmy for top-notch suggestions for my potential last words!
James Randi served as the primary science advisor on the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, basically they were this organization that pushed the idea that there was a disease called “False Memory Syndrome”
What’s False Memory Syndrome? A disease that causes you to randomly remember things that don’t happen, like say being sexually abused by a parental figure or close friend.
The foundation was kind of disbanded, in 2019, when its board was revealed to have basically no evidence that False Memory Syndrome was real, actively discouraged victims of abuse from seeking therapy (for fear that Psychologists would use hypnosis to “Implant a false memory”), and were pretty much all credibly accused of some kind of abuse… Investigations into the foundation showed it didn’t really do any research into the syndrome it claimed to exist, it mostly just built legal defenses for scum bags by sending people to court to say “She says was she was raped, but she’s obviously completely insane and thus probably making it up. Source: Trust me bro”
Birds of a feather flock together… Now it’s possible he joined as a kneejerk response to the Satanic Panic (When people were being coached to say they were molested in the glorious name of Satan as children, claiming “Resurfaced Memories”), but one would think that he would have sounded the alarm when he realized was a science advisor that didn’t do any actual research, just picked up paychecks to say “False Memories are totally a thing, I’m James Randi, do you not believe my appeal to authority claim?”… but he didn’t. Weird.
It’s also sus that Randi was a Science Director of ANYTHING considering he literally was a high school dropout with no science training (Something that honestly casts doubt on the Million Dollar Challenge’s legitimacy if you ask me, now keep in mind, showing Randi as a charlatan does not exonerate the frauds he caught. It merely proves this to be more of a Dexter situation; Dexter being a show in which a serial killer catches other serial killer, Randi being a scammer catching other scammers) I’d compare James Randi’s fraud busting as being similar to a case when Police catch the right guy, but fail to read him the Miranda or respect the 4th Amendment.
Recorded phone sex tapes of Randi speaking with young boys, James Randi claims that he was working with police on a sting operation, but that explanation makes no sense since if teen boys are calling him up for sex… What crime are the teen boys committing? It honestly sounds like they’re the victims of grooming here… So the better question is, how did these young men even get this number in the first place?
So why haven’t you heard of this before? Quite simply JREF has the resources and motive to protect the image of its founder, and since Randi’s reputation is largely positive with most people against him being scam psychics thoroughly debunked as scammers. Making it kind of easy to just claim anyone against Randi is for the likes of Geller or Browne, or is one of the religious fanatics that claimed he was, as you said, an Anti-American Communist… Just play the “No U” card and the skeptic community takes the bait, of course mainstream outlets aren’t going to say this and get these communities out for their blood…
James Randi, was a pseudo-skeptic who liked 'em young.
Mine was: I kept reporting people for being transphobic dicks, some of whom were straight up doing the “Let’s report this profile for suicidal posts and cite them being trans as proof. The automated system will do the rest”, non-joke, and eventually I had to start reporting people for other things…
Instead of ya know, actually looking into the things I was reporting, Reddit took one look at the mass of reports I made and decided I HAD to be making the whole thing up and just banned me for “False Reports” and “Report Abuse” because that’s just easier than doing their fucking jobs.
They also claimed it wouldn’t be reversed because it was a “Clear violated of the TOS”, and linked me a TOS which had nothing on “False Reports/Report Abuse”
Ironically, this was my second Site-Wide Ban.
My first? I was banned for promoting violence and sending death threats to people. The ban was reversed when I appealed it and pointed out that the post in question had no threats, and was just a heavily downvoted post in which I claimed to be glad Cara Dune’s actress being fired was a good thing… Bastards didn’t even check to see if an actual death threat was made.
I’ve never seen a service more excited to exclude people from using it than Reddit.
The recent post made me fear that a lot of you are taking this “monkey looks at double-slits” meme, which was only ever supposed to be a funny monkey meme, actually seriously. Honorable mention goes to @kromem, whose 12 posts on the topic, insisting that the quantum eraser experiment (but not the delayed-choice quantum...
Okay so what would a more accurate summary be, because what I got from that is that the Dual slit was debunked by us not having the proper tools to actually measure things this small. If that’s not it then I sincerely do not get it.
Sadly, Magic is once again missing from the world.
Btw, please don’t use Anti-Asian phrases created by a literal Pedophile in your debunks (Woo Woo)
All else I have to say is, knowing that amount of things you have to do to even measure this wave in the first place… There’s no great mystery here, it’s just “The ways we have to measure this thing are insanely shitty.”
It was made up by James Randi, a crazy man who claimed he debunked meditation and climate change… Sure he’s also the reason no one takes Uri Geller seriously, but that’s like the ONE good thing he did…
James claimed it was based on music in sci-fi films, but the suspicious similarity to the asian phrase “Wu”, and his own contempt for Eastern Religious Practices are noteworthy.
Randi tried to explain this away as a sting operation he performed with police, but… That makes no sense since if teenagers are calling him for sex, that makes Randi look suspicious, not them, I mean how they’d even get the number.
He also served as the primary science advisor on the False Memory Foundation, which was debunked as a kiddie diddling organization and disbanded shortly after in 2019
Basically my understanding as gathered from the original post, is that the Dual slit experiment does not actually make any meaningful statements because the thing that it intends to measure cannot be accurately measured. However the measurements we got from the imprecise are weird, but that’s to be expected because that’s basically the same as looking at the moon with a magnifying glass and trying to make as accurate astronomical predictions
Except it’s not a placebo and it has actually been shown to have an effect on the human mind, there is a difference between thinking you’re getting better and actually getting better. Placebo can only make you think that you’re getting better, there is no actual measurable effect. Which is not the case with hypnosis.
Here’s another Journal, it was in my previous post, but admittedly I got the link wrong at first and had to edited in, so I don’t know that you actually saw it, unless you mean another site entirely in which case why not just say so?
And I have no idea what you mean by an impact factor, I have never heard this term before when discussing these kinds of things.
If you want documentation on hypnosis being used to treat smoking and irritable bowel syndrome, I can provide that too.
Psuedoscience is psuedoscience because it produces no objectively useful results, if Hypnosis demonstrates measurable and repeatably provable results, then it’s not psuedoscience
Bro if Dowsing Roads could actually find water, it wouldn’t matter if people thought it was magic, there’d be something there to study and figure out why.
Hypnotism is a fun card to play, because it’s the new meditation in some ways. In that you can basically tell Skeptics from pseudoskeptics depending on how quickly people try to debunk it.
This one has been sighted five times in the past 2 years, with four of them being from this year alone.
There are people who love science, and there are people who know science. You have outed yourself as the former.
Bro my therapist uses hypnosis to calm down erratic patients, it isn’t her main card, but it is a weapon in her Arsenal that has shown to work. She is the director of Behavioral Health at her practice.
She is also an atheist and a self-proclaimed rationalist.
Meditation used to be considered “woo woo” nonsense too but that’s not really how the peer review worked out.
Hypnotism is real, it doesn’t actually let you control and it certainly isn’t Magic or some kind of psychic power like it is in Pokemon, but it has been documented as a effective treatment for irritable bowel syndrome and smoking addiction.
I apologize for my outbursts, but I have ran into so many dude Bros over the years… the kind of people who think science is agreeing with their favorite YouTube Skeptic and yelling “FAKE” at anything they don’t understand or contradictis their preferred skeptic…
I run into this kind of person a lot on science forums, so knowing if a forum has those kinds of people let’s me know if actual science is going to be discussed here or if it’s going to devolve into a circle jerk.
It’s easy for me to lose my temper. I should be better than this, and I will thank you for teaching me about two new things. One impact factor and two that PubMed is not by itself a journal, I don’t publish things because I’m not a doctor myself. I merely someone who tries to stay educated. I apologize if I ever gave the impression that I was trained in The Sciences as opposed to someone who merely has an interest in them.
Hypnotism is a card I typically have, and the more negative someone reacts to it, the easier it is for me to test the water.
I apologize for my deception, but as far as I am aware, it isn’t a question whether or not hypnosis exists and actually works, it’s a question of what the practical application sport are. One thing we know for sure is that memory recovery is not one of these applications, as the hypnotic state will cause someone to create a memory not actually remember one. Which is a shame. This is why one needs to be very wary of any past life memories that have resurfaced thanks to meditation, I’d be wary of any past life memories at all to be honest, given how easy self deception is when it comes to just things involving this life.
Respect to anyone still managing a library of mp3s (lemmy.world)
What's an amusing thing to say before going under general anesthesia?
Last time, I used: “Anybody need anything while I’m out?” and that went over well. May not make it through this surgery on Friday, so I turn to Lemmy for top-notch suggestions for my potential last words!
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