From ozestrange@... Thu Dec 06 22:54:30 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: ozestrange@... X-Apparently-To: mysterylights@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_2); 7 Dec 2001 06:54:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 99731 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2001 06:54:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m6.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Dec 2001 06:54:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n10.groups.yahoo.com) (216.115.96.60) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Dec 2001 06:54:30 -0000 Received: from [216.115.96.178] by n10.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Dec 2001 06:54:29 -0000 Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 06:54:26 -0000 To: mysterylights@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Albert Budden Message-ID: <9upp32+f14s@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <200112061319.OAA09807@...> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 1700 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster From: "ozestrange" X-Originating-IP: 203.109.250.99 X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=61845547 X-Yahoo-Profile: ozestrange Hey Frits Thanks,I appreciate it. ! Mike > I happened to receive a telephone call from Albert Budden > himself today and I told him about your critisism, which seems > to boil down to below points. Budden would like to react to > relevant remarks of yours. I'll forward below list to him. I've > added a new numbering and removed personal remarks of yours that > I deemed irrelevant and also one that was a misrepresentation > of my views. > > This procedure may take a while, since Budden will send his > reply to me by snail-mail. I'll then forward it to this list. > > Cheers, > Frits > > On 5th December 2001, "Mike Williams" wrote: > > >1/The TriField device he uses is a toy. > > >2/No one else has ever found the consistent readings he seems to > >find everywhere. If there exists someone please tell me. > > >3/I have found very few readings of interest since i I have owned > >the device.And I want to find odd readings as well, to try and > >establish a clear causative link. > > >4/Budden seems to believe his hypothesis covers ALL paranormal > >claims.But his parameters are to large. They have to be falsifiable, > >ie Popper/Kuhn. > > >5/Please tell me a black and white way of proving/testing etc > >whether Buddens ideas are applicable in ALL cases.And how to falsify > >the idea/hypothesis.Because if you cannot falsify it/then it isnt a > >theory worth anything. > > >6/Budden implies that ALL paranormal events are.. > >mag change=neurological change=paranormal claims. > >A more realistic belief might be.. > >Some paranormal events may cause field changes=neurological > >change=paranormal claims.