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Skeptical Inquirer 32:6

By Gregon

The final issue of Skeptical Inquirer for the year has been released (32:6), and as usual there’s plenty of free sample articles from the latest mag available online to whet your appetite:

Full details of the new issue at the Skeptical Inquirer website.

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Greg is the owner-editor of The Daily Grail, as well as the author of a number of books including Stop Worrying, There Probably is an Afterlife.
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  1. Quantum Weirdness
    “This argument could be said just to transfer any weirdness into a magical process that transforms a mixture of possibilities into a single result in the moment we call the present. This is indeed magical, but it is a kind of magic that we experience all the time. We can make it seem more exotic by dressing it up as quantum physics, but the underlying magic remains the same.”

    Quincey’s article unwittingly reveals the neurosis at the heart of much knee jerk skepticism. These people are mostly just addicted to raining on parades and making sure no one is having too much fun. So we see written here that quantum weirdness is indeed magical but it is “everyday” magic so we can just “move along folks – nothing to see here.” This is the funniest thing I have read in a long time.

    1. Right On, Emlong
      I was thinking exactly the same thing about Quincey’s quixotic article. Exactly what was its point? To suggest to all of us that “quantum mechanics really isn’t weird, so stop seeing it that way, you kooky people”? I disagree with you on one point, though: I think skeptics more addicted to making sure no one deviates from skeptic orthodoxy and starts thinking of the cosmos as interconnected, nonlocal mind being possible, etc. “Must…suppress…open…mind!”

      But what’s truly funny about this piece is that it actually, in a roundabout way, ends up supporting the phenomena that the CSICOPians fear most, like psi. By insisting that the “weirdness” of QM nonlocality and its role for consciousness is actually a normal part of our natural world, it opens the door to say, “So, does that mean that nonlocal communication and intentionality are part of the natural world, too? I mean, they are observed by billions.”

      Best not to share that sentiment with Quincey. He might blow a circuit board.

  2. The Curious Case of Street Light Interference
    I shocked that street light interference would become a phenom. I have yet to come across anyone who thought this was an issue to be investigated by better minds

    do not distrub this ruble. Sapho

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