Comments by "John Smith" (@JohnSmith-op7ls) on "Martin DeCoder" channel.

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  16.  @throughthoroughthought8064  I’ve followed parapsychology for decades and there is nothing even remotely approaching proof of psychic powers. At best you have some statistics based on small scale studies which, if you rationalize away methodological issues and squint hard enough, you can claim “statistically significant” results that imply there’s something going on besides chance. Even the few studies that were fairly well done but far from perfect, they still tested small groups of people. If you were using the same approach for studying the efficacy of medical treatments, you’d never get FDA approval. But even if you pretend these small scale, unideal studies somehow demonstrate what you’d see if better studies were done at large scale, of hundreds of thousands of subjects or more, it still doesn’t demonstrate that psychic abilities exist, much less provide any framework to build a testable, working model of. At best they suggest that something may be causing results that are a bit better than chance. Claiming that points to psychic powers being a thing is just a variation of the god of the gaps fallacy. And none of this has anything, at all, to do with this specific person in question or their claimed story. Even if you pretend some statistical abnormalities found in subject counts that wouldn’t pass muster to draw conclusion in medical or even nutritional epidemiology (which is notorious for having low standards), AND you pretend that this abnormality must be due to psychic powers existing, in now way does it prove that OP has such powers or if they do, that they are capable of the result claimed, or if they are, that they were the cause of the claim, which you don’t even know if it even happened or not. You’ve built a really precarious house of cards to stand on here.
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