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Read on Hacker News…fallibleideas.com: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Metaethics_sequence If you're easily distracted on a computer and you want this sort of stuff in book form, I recommend Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics by Gary Drescher.
Read on Hacker News…t would have to make some of the particles sometimes violate the principles that all particles are always observed to obey whenever we check carefully." - Gary Drescher, Good and Real, chapter 2.1: The Case against Ghosts At the very least it's highly likely that the positive results of parapsychology, or the vast bulk of them, are due to the sort of statistical problems that plague other sciences as well. I cannot, of course, say it's 100% certain .
Read on Hacker NewsI recommend either Gary Drescher's "Good and Real", or the relevant parts of Overcoming Bias (which aren't exactly collected into one place yet).
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