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Alexander1304
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Posted - 03/24/2015 :  06:05:50  Show Profile Send Alexander1304 a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Hello All,
Here are 2 articles written by Robert Lanza with the arguments that death is not the end. I would probably be skeptical, but in first article he uses scientific word "experiments":

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/do-you-only-live-once-exp_b_508440.html

And in second he uses the word "evidence":

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/what-happens-when-you-die_b_596600.html

Please look through these 2 articels,they are not big and let me know what you think.
Thank you

Kil
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Posted - 03/24/2015 :  08:49:24   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Lanza, like Deepak Chopra is misusing quantum theory. He's a real scientist but when he starts talking about life and death, he becomes a pseudo-scientist. Here's Steven Novella's take:

Robert Lanza appears to be a legitimate and accomplished physician and stem cell researcher. Unfortunately he has decided to follow in the footsteps of Linus Pauling in venturing outside his area of expertise into the world of pseudoscience.

Lanza is promoting the idea of biocentrism, the notion that consciousness creates the universe, rather than simply being a physical phenomenon within the universe. His ideas are remarkably similar to those of Deepak Chopra, which I have recently discussed, but are stated in more coherent and less flowery prose. His views, however, are just as nonsensical.


Novella has written a two part take down of Lanza's ideas:

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First reason to be skeptical: the words "experiments" and "evidence" appear in articles on HuffPo.

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Kil
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Posted - 03/24/2015 :  18:18:21   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Dave W.

First reason to be skeptical: the words "experiments" and "evidence" appear in articles on HuffPo.


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