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- From: nkjrm@taxus.uib.no (Rolf Manne)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Matthew Manning's psychokinetic achievements
- Message-ID: <nkjrm.110@taxus.uib.no>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 09:36:25 GMT
- References: <nkjrm.109@taxus.uib.no> <1k68p9INN2ei@gap.caltech.edu>
- Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount)
- Organization: University of Bergen
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- In article <1k68p9INN2ei@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
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- >In article <nkjrm.109@taxus.uib.no>, nkjrm@taxus.uib.no (Rolf Manne) writes:
- >>What I want to know, however, is if there exist investigations of scientific
- >>merit of the claimed achievements of Matthew Manning.
- >>
-
- >You'd do better to ask whether Manning's achievements have been investigated by
- >a stage magician. Since many of his "achievements" sound quite reminiscent of
- >well-known conjuring effects, any team attempting to test Manning's claims
- >would do well to have an expert in that field as a member.
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- To my knowledge spoon-bending and poltergeist production are only possible
- through conjuring. If an investigation of such phenomena has to have
- scientific merit it has to consider the conjuring issue properly. For this
- reason non-scientist James Randi's investigations of spoon-bending have
- scientific merit while physicist John Hasted's lack it completely.
-
- I am thus still interested in the following questions:
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- 1. Are there any proper investigations of Manning's claimed achievements.
-
- 2. Have the people I mentioned in my previous made any investigations at
- all, and if they did any did they do them right?
-
- 3. Are Manning's claims unknown to British skepticists?
-
- Rolf Manne
- Department of Chemistry, University of Bergen
- e-mail Rolf.Manne@uib.no
-