Friday, November 12, 2010

An example of Precognition

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19712-evidence-that-we-can-see-the-future-to-be-published.html

As always, the prediction is maddeningly vague on crucial details like when it will be published.

11 comments:

H. Rumbold, Master Barber said...

It's like déjà vu all over again!

Hamish Mack said...

I knew you were going to post this.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

I hope it's written in quatrains.

fish said...

like when it will be published.

Heisenberg's uncertainty publishing,

you cannot know both that it will be published and when.

Substance McGravitas said...

Experiment 1: Precognitive Detection of Erotic Stimuli

You know, I could use some research into this area.

Smut Clyde said...

Sounds like fish is experienced with the vagaries of academic journals.

Smut Clyde said...

From Bem's paper:
40 of the sessions comprised 12 trials using erotic pictures,
...using stronger and more explicit images from Internet sites for the men. We also provided two additional sets of erotic pictures so that men could choose the option of seeing male-male erotic images and women could choose the option of seeing female-female erotic images.


It does not require precognition to see the kind of hostile publicity he's going to receive when the rightwing culture warriors find out about his methods.

Substance McGravitas said...

It may turn out that all your inappropriate boners were instead precognitive boners and you just DIDN'T CLUE IN.

ckc (not kc) said...

...timing is everything

mikey said...

They even have the tools to convince a grand jury that even if you didn't do anything, you're still a fucking perv and need to be incarcerated...

Smut Clyde said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penile_plethysmograph

It is hardly my fault if I am turned on by having pressure gauges or inflatable cuffs placed around my penis.
It is in fact the Frau Doktorin's fault, but you don't want to hear that story.