Oddbean new post about login | logout @b05df304 yeah but that would be obviously outside the normal laws of nature, if a huge number of people disappeared individually. I want something, for a thriller, where it is quite possible for the skeptics to be skeptical and the believers to believe. So there is a mysterious video uploaded to Youtube a couple days later showing people disappearing. The person who uploaded it swears that mysterious burglars took the original.
@e7f7ab20 Thats fair... if everyone dies in one accident due to reasons like a choice to gather it is more easily explained away than people just disapearing with no plausible explanation
@b05df304 Like the NDE phenomenon or the kids with past life memories phenomenon. There is plenty of evidence for someone who wants to take it seriously. And plenty of room to be skeptical. For psychic phenomena two theories I like: 1) They are enabled by belief and blocked by doubt, so a skeptic can actually jam the signal. Thus all the star psychics who zeroed out when a doubter was brought in to observe. 2) The entities producing the phenomena don't want to be understood by us.
@e7f7ab20 Sadly when it comes to subject non-experiment driven evidence it becomes almost entierly speculative... these things dont work too well under science because they just are so damn hard to falsify.
@b05df304 Yes that's almost the definition of a supernatural phenomenon. Those things for which evidence exists, but which will not perform under controlled conditions in the lab. UFOs are in that category too. It's clear now that every high-tech sensor built in the 20th and 21st century detected a variety of anomalies, but nobody can get to the bottom of it. I think the "big secret" is that spook world has studied the hell out of this stuff, got nowhere, and they are afraid of it.