The Case of ESP - Ad Hominem Argument

A skep-dick can't produce any sound criticism of three parapsychologists experiment so he relies on attacking their character.
From "The Case of ESP"
Horizon
BBC 4
1983

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Skep-Dick
• Parapsychology
• ESP
• Psi
• Ad
• Hominem
• Fundamaterialism
• Russell
• Targ
• Charles
• Tart
• Harold
• Puthoff

[Subher0]

Can someone bring me up to speed? What was this experiment about and what are you actually arguing?

[wpaxton]

I answered these questions in four comments made in response to

janwillem1982 . I direct you to those comments (below) for your answers.

[Subher0]

It's still not clear to me what experiment has been done and it only explains that someone is falsely discrediting the experiment.

[wpaxton]

It is a remote viewing experiment conducted by Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff in the 1970s. If you would like to view the full 89 minute program it is linked below. Enjoy.

vids(dot)myspace(dot)com/index­(dot)cfm?fuseaction=vids(dot)i­ndividual&videoid=34531657

[Ev3rliving]

Not an ad hominem attack. He was questioning how trustworthy the results of this dubious claim were. In that case, he is perfectly justified in bringing into question the character of someone who had a significant part in the orchestration of the "experiment."

[wpaxton]

Fuck the living shit out of you. People like you are a disgrace. You hide behind the banner of "science" but you're really insecure assholes who need to belittle others to feel like your life means something.

[TurboSwami]

The argument was based on Dr. Tart's honesty as a researcher. That is an ad hominem argument.

[Biochips1]

No one can take these "skeptics" seriously. They don't investigate the paranormal they just ridicule it from a great distance. A typical ignorant behaviour which no reasonable person interested in the truth is allowed to accept.

I should mention that I'm a skeptic too. But I won't reject true facts about parapsychology that have already been proven in several repeatable experiments. Remote Viewing is one of these proven facts.

[michaelduggan3]

thanks for this. Can you supply the rest of this episode of Horizon?

Thanks.

M

[wpaxton]

You've just betrayed yourself as a skep-dick for mentioning Randi in a serious manner. You've just been blocked. Thank you for showing you're overwhelming bias and antiscientific way of thinking.