Showing posts with label debunking EVPs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label debunking EVPs. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Paranormal Review Radio - Believers & Skeptics Roundtable Discussion


Zar Doz:  
Guy Harrison, consciously aware or not, is exhibiting the same hypocritical self-validating logic debunkers, not skeptics, project. The basic axiom of skepticism is; open mind, suspend judgement, & investigate. Debunkers, admittedly or not, claim the "truth" position by default & any paranormal event must conform to their debunker worldview rules or "it's not real", which he implies @09:30 to 10:20. He touts the "I don't know" ideal, but he's quick to tell you what you did or didn't experience.
There is no such thing as an "extraordinary claim", therefore there is no "extraordinary evidence." This is nonsense. There is a claim and the evidence that validates it. Also, UFOs or unidentified flying objects do not require a "belief", since this is a description, so the need for "belief' is ridiculous. Debunkers or pathological skeptics have been taught to use this language, which allows them to control the words, thus the conversation. This is a type of neural linguistic programming (NLP).
Starting @0:45:45 what's being heard in Harrison's voice and the nervous laughter is the figurative intellectual rug being pulled out from underneath his pathological skepticism by Rob Henry's previous statement. Because Rob Henry is a skeptic. The roles are clear and defined @0:46:30 by Harrison with his own words again. The behavior he states is denial a.k.a. Cognitive Dissonance. Where's the open mind, suspension of judgement, and investigation? No where He already knows what it isn't? How?
 @0:47:15 Harrison suggest a "mass sighting of ghost" might do the trick to convince him. Well, literally multiple millions for decades and likely centuries have observed and reported UFOs individually and in mass, but this is ignored. People, like Harrison, who claim to be "skeptics", champion science, and "truth", do no such thing. They live in a constructed and defined reality, an imaginary mental prison of their own making where they view the world through a small group validated pinhole. 
Harrison validates my assessment with his own words. For example, take note of his condescending language and inflection, he's talking down to the panel, it's obvious. His example of a "noise from the hall way" is not only dismissive to the panel, but of the Scientific Method that paranormal investigators painstakingly collect with devices that measure the environment that can also be used to repeat and validate. But, of course, debunkers never bother with field work, they already "know".
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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Undebunking EVPs


Starting at 7:35 in the first video below, the idea that EVPs are from radio and TV signals is debunked. In the full length documentary the clip comes from, the  events described below are documented. I am skeptical of the other unrelated material presented in the film.
Marcelo Bacci

In Italy we explore the work of internationally famous medium, Marcelo Bacci. For years, thousands of grieving parents from around the world have visited his centre. Many say they can hear the voices of their deceased children speak through his radio. Our cameras were able to capture this extraordinary process as it happened. Mothers weep with joy as they recognize the voices of their departed children.

Scientific investigations into Bacci include voice print analysis using FBI software. Recordings of people’s voices before they died have been compared to those emerging from Bacci’s radio have produced a 97% match. This is the first time Bacci’s work has appeared in a UK/US production.

Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP)

Recently popularized in the Hollywood blockbuster - White Noise - practitioners of the Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) claim to be able to pick up the voices of the dead using simple tape recorders. In the US we visit a mother who claims to have ongoing communication with her deceased son via EVP. Since his death twenty years ago, she has produced hundreds of clear EVP samples. She is convinced they originate from her son because she is able to recognize his voice and the audio contains specific phrases that only he used.

Critics say EVP is just the pick up of stray broadcast signals. But we follow a former NASA scientist, and the world’s leading EVP researcher, into a laboratory that is totally shielded from all sound and electromagnetic signals. Despite it being a scientific impossibility he is able to produce an EVP sample in front of our cameras.
 

In this program many great EVPs are played and the credibility of those capturing these disembodied voices is addressed.

 

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Phantom Voices