Posted: Apr 23, 2013 8:46 am
@Vinncent:
Please, please try to understand the above statement: There has to be some reason that, in applying for funding, no one ever publishes (or refers to) a Ganzfeld experiment with negative results. Hint: It isn't because we are sure that no Ganzfeld experiment ever yields negative results. This is what is meant by saying that nothing can falsify theories of psi.
This is simply lying through your teeth. Even parapsychological journals themselves publish negative results. A simple search on google scholar will reveal such. Again, a "file drawer" argument, that is not consistent with published results, both positive and negative.
Oops. Negative result. Bin it. Seriously, though, I meant testing people with perfect pitch using visual images. Why not? Why isn't perfect pitch considered as recommending psi candidates? Afraid you might get a negative result?
Of course it should be "binned". If you're attempted to replicate an experiment, but don't follow the original experimental procedure, you aren't performing a replication... you're doing something entirely different. Regardless of whether the result is positive or negative, it is not replicating the experiment that it claims to be replicating if, simply, its not replicating the experimental procedure.