Researchers discover unknown body system. Declare it a potential cause for extra sensory perception

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This news story focuses an article, published December 15th, that details how researchers have made an interesting discovery, turning years of scientific and medical dogma on its head.

“In the article, researchers at Albany Medical College, the University of Liverpool and Cambridge University report that the human body has an entirely unique and separate sensory system…”

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For years, these poor people have been hounded by established science; a system that has been known to close ranks and stifle dissent among its own. The scientists and medical professionals who suggested possible theories supporting the claimants were labeled quacks and frauds. Meaning, if you believed the “crazies”, you risked your career, because you were obviously crazy too. If you wanted to keep your job, you toed the party line.

And perpetuating the abuse: misguided unquestioning followers of scientific dogma, who insist that because science hasn’t proven it, or in their parlance: developed a consistently testable theory, it can’t possibly exist.

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Comment amusant.

As a scientist, my duty is to do whatever I can to suppress the truth in this article. :rofl:

The actual article can be found here and is much more interesting than the "Green Goddess Love" blog post.

Here's a good snip:

I sense an aura of nutjobbery around the "Green Goddess Love" thing.

This quack site should have provided a few links to support this article.

If they had any.

It's not extrasensory perception. It's an additional perceptive system for heat, cold and pain. If you've ever had an IV inserted, you already know that system exists.

B: Read the headline literally. Extra Sensory Perception. Not Extrasensory Perception. As in: people with fybromyalgia perceive EXTRA pain.

It's a freakin' pun. And if you need me to, I can explain what that is.



And we complain about that other site having thick-headed people......

...I just thought the comments in the OP were a bit ludicrous.

This, as a "cause" of ESP? :rofl:

Without the commitment of you and those like you gambling would be completely uninteresting. And don't even get me started on what would happen to fantasy football. ;)

:rofl: :hi:

And along the same lines... I just read an article that includes a good bit on the high correlation between hyper-rationality and excessive religiosity (ie fundamentalism/jihadist)http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/gambetta/Engineers%20of%20Jihad.pdf

It's as if, somehow, their need for structured realities makes flexible, nuanced thinking painful....

from: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18301-five-laws-of-human-nature.html?full=true


And for you other folks... reading the whole post and the link from the post can be quite helpful and enlightening.... (do I actually need a sarcasm thingy here?)

Been banging my head against that wall for years.
Interesting article, can you please link to the site of the actual article.

the text that is colored differently and reads:"news story". The 2nd and 3rd words in the opening sentence.

:shrug:

:evilgrin:

The blog made completely unwarranted assumptions about a poor writeup of legitimate scientific research.

1. Nothing about the original article "turned years of scientific and medical dogma on its head." Seriously. Did you even read the original article?

2. No one mentioned ESP until the stupid blog did. Just another example of a woo site making shit up.

3. The writeup was a poor one. This wasn't a completely new and separate system. From the abstract of the real paper: "Our findings suggest three hypotheses: (1) that development or maintenance of sensory innervation to cutaneous vasculature and sweat glands may be under separate genetic control from that of all other cutaneous sensory innervation, (2) the latter innervation is preferentially vulnerable to some environmental factor, and (3) vascular and sweat gland afferents may contribute to conscious cutaneous perception." Cutaneous innervation = touch. It's not a completely new and separate sensory system.

This is a great example of someone making crazy bullshit from real science. Next thing you know, there will be 1,000 woo blogs linking to that blog as PROOF! THAT ESP EXISTS! and that the SCIENTIFIC CABAL IS DISCREDITED PERMANENTLY!

But agreed, the unthinking will make assumptions regardless of the truth staring them in the face.