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Re: Lets Blow this Dowsing Lark off Fina
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> But that doesn't mean to say that everything anomalous (eg earth lights, telepathy, crytozoological animals, whatever) can all be dismissed in a big swathe just because they don't fit into current scientific conceptions of the universe.

Hi Rhiannon. The "anomolies" you list aren't dismissed because scientists are nasty killjoys who don't like people to believe in such things (I for one would love to be telepathic!). They are dismissed because they aren't amenable to the scientific method. If you cannot test an idea and reproduce its findings repeatedly it isn't in any rigorous sense meaningful :) Sadly dowsing and telepathy come into this category and have long been shown to be untestable and hence (scientifically) meaningless.

Earth lights and cryptozoology, however, perhaps don't belong in the same list as the first may well have a geophysical explanation and the latter may just need some intrepid types to do a bit more exploring :)


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5th April 2006ce
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