From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Fri Jan 03 2003 - 13:11:05 MST
Damien Broderick wrote:
> I've just forced myself to read all the way through Dr Gary Schwartz's THE
> AFTERLIFE EXPERIMENTS, and found the experience somewhat unsettling. Despite
> the non-stop treacle and warm fuzzies and horrendous physics, Professor
> Schwartz [prof of--take a deep breath--`psychology, medicine, neurology,
> psychiatry and surgery at University of Arizona and director of its Human
> Energy Systems Lab'] and his medium and scientist (or perhaps `scientist')
> colleagues appear to have provided some intriguing data.
>
> Is what's reported reliable? Well, even though skeptical reviewers like Ray
> Hyman have attacked the program's many experimental weaknesses and
> inadequacies, they appear not to have explained away the most surprising
> results, nor shown, as one might expect, that the whole thing is a
> concoction.
>
Without taking the time to read the book myself, are you willing
to be more specific about what you still find convincing given
the rather severe methodological errors, nature of cold reading
and so on?
- samantha
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