Posted by fires on October 28, 2004, at 12:50:58
In reply to Re: What all this repeated info is really saying.. » fires, posted by pegasus on October 28, 2004, at 11:17:19
> >There is no such thing as repressed memories (science based evience of).
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> Well, actually, speaking as a scientist, if there no evidence of something, you wouldn't conclude that that thing does not exist. All you would conclude is that so far there is no evidence for it. There can be a lot of reasons for the lack of evidence besides that the thing doesn't exist. For example, the studies could have neglected to address important issues, or been otherwise flawed. Which seems likely to have been the case in at least one of the studies that you cited (according to GG).
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> It's really very hard to design a study that would allow you to conclude that something doesn't exist. You'd have to prove the thing to be missing in every concievable scenario where it could possibly exist.
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> pegasus
>Yes, science can't prove a negative, but extraordinary claims demand exraordinary proof.
Also, it's not up to science to prove that I didn't see 1,000 UFOS last night, it's up to me to prove that I did. (Of course I only saw 999 ;))
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