The Telepathy Tapes - Must Listen!

Just watched the trailer, it does look like interesting albeit as others have said a bit ‘hippy dippy’.

What’s it got to do with materialism though?
 
Yeah, I kinda lost it at the line "...after the medical board took my licence away..." :rolleyes:

And another funny line was "...the science behind this...". Erm, there is no science behind this and that's a pretty big problem. Science can not provide any mechanism by which this could happen. That's not to say that it doesn't happen, it just says that they are challenging a huge pyramid of verified science, and if they want to do that they need to at least carry out the tests scientifically, which they aren't doing in those videos.
 
Ayahuasca said:
Ah, autism pseudoscience, you can see why it would be so popular.

As if people with this disorder don't have enough problems, you know, with people telling them it's a superpower and all that.
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It's not linked to Autism, it's linked to people who were \ are non-verbal. It just happens that those two groups intersect but it isn't an exclusive phenomenon to those with Autism.
 
SpellowHouse said:
Yeah, I kinda lost it at the line "...after the medical board took my licence away..." :rolleyes:

And another funny line was "...the science behind this...". Erm, there is no science behind this and that's a pretty big problem. Science can not provide any mechanism by which this could happen. That's not to say that it doesn't happen, it just says that they are challenging a huge pyramid of verified science, and if they want to do that they need to at least carry out the tests scientifically, which they aren't doing in those videos.
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I think it was suggested at one point they place one or perhaps more of the kids in a Faraday cage.
 
I think the issue is, as much as we all want to be open minded, when something sounds too good to be true, we all know that it probably is a load of BS..

I think it's right to be sceptical:
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The Telepathy Tapes Prove We All Want to Believe

The Telepathy Tapes is a seven-hour podcast series that takes listeners on an incredible journey. Here is a summary of the show. A journalist taps into a community of parents of nonverbal autistic children and discovers that we all live in a simulation and the real world is Heaven, and these...
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Lets wait and see, but jumping on some huge bandwagon seems ill thought out at this stage.
 
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Demon said:
I think the issue is, as much as we all want to be open minded, when something sounds too good to be true, we all know that it probably is a load of BS..

I think it's right to be sceptical:
www.mcgill.ca

The Telepathy Tapes Prove We All Want to Believe

The Telepathy Tapes is a seven-hour podcast series that takes listeners on an incredible journey. Here is a summary of the show. A journalist taps into a community of parents of nonverbal autistic children and discovers that we all live in a simulation and the real world is Heaven, and these...
www.mcgill.ca

Lets wait and see, but jumping on some huge bandw
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Sceptical is fine if you can review the evidence and give an alternative hypothesis, but forming an opinion while refusing to even look (as many here are doing) is not scientific and doesn't make your opinion valid.

You can see some of the experiments here, you can argue they are not under strictly controlled conditions but they do defy obvious explanation and deserve investigation because they are repeatable with multiple subjects, all of whom fall into the "non speaker" category.

 
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MookJong said:
Sceptical is fine if you can review the evidence and give an alternative hypothesis, but forming an opinion while refusing to even look (as many here are doing) is not scientific and doesn't make your opinion valid.

You can see some of the experiments here, you can argue they are not under strictly controlled conditions but they do defy obvious explanation and deserve investigation because they are repeatable with multiple subjects, all of whom fall into the "non speaker" category.

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I've watched the video...

It literally plays out like any 'ancient aliens' style show, they show clips with obvious opportunity for facilitated communication, then talk about all the 'other' things they did, yet don't include that footage or show any real detail, just appeal to authority with a narrative woven in.. just like those History channel 'shows'..

I'm always open minded, but until those are rigorously scientifically tested I wouldn't remotely get excited..

The reason non-verbal autistic people may exhibit this is simply that they have to find a new way of communicating, but rather than it being extra sensory perception based methods, it might just be subtle/nuanced verbal/physical queues that explain why it's largely the primary care provider in most cases..

Worse, they start doing a UFO style butchering of scientific subjects like 'scalar physics' or 'extended electrodynamics' that are just there to put a veneer of mystery to it all.

Take Mia, the most obvious case in that video, her mother is sat next to her holding her head in various ways and you wonder how magically her mother might be 'communicating' with her? C'mon.
 
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MookJong said:
Sceptical is fine if you can review the evidence and give an alternative hypothesis, but forming an opinion while refusing to even look (as many here are doing) is not scientific and doesn't make your opinion valid.
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Coming up with something that isn't explicable by our current understanding of science also doesn't make an investigation valid, any more than an absence of definitive explanation makes the fantasy valid.

There are many things we cannot explain, but at this point in our evolution they don't need explaining. At best, they're a low priority compared to protecting ourselves from weather and climate change, sourcing cheap and consistent energy sources, or solving the problems of space colonisation for when we finally destroy this planet.
A few kids who might be telepathic is great if we're going to parachute them into the Kremlin and glean KGB secrets on secret nuclear bases hidden inside volcanoes... but otherwise it's just a parlour trick affecting maybe a few dozen people out of billions.

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The Telepathy Tapes Prove We All Want to Believe

The Telepathy Tapes is a seven-hour podcast series that takes listeners on an incredible journey. Here is a summary of the show. A journalist taps into a community of parents of nonverbal autistic children and discovers that we all live in a simulation and the real world is Heaven, and these...
www.mcgill.ca
 
MookJong said:
You can see some of the experiments here, you can argue they are not under strictly controlled conditions but they do defy obvious explanation and deserve investigation because they are repeatable with multiple subjects, all of whom fall into the "non speaker" category.
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Given how easy it would be to do some actual science and test these things under strictly controlled conditions, you have to wonder why that hasn't happened?

Hint : because it's BS and the boring reality won't make money for anyone.
 
mid_gen said:
Given how easy it would be to do some actual science and test these things under strictly controlled conditions, you have to wonder why that hasn't happened?

Hint : because it's BS and the boring reality won't make money for anyone.
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Tbh, I would have thought the reason was because of the extreme sensitivity autistic children have to change and new people. Dr Hennacy confirms this as the reason (on her web page)
She'll be working towards the ideal protocol before filming the next set of experiments. There's nothing up with that.
 
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