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Re:TEDx talks discredited: Sheldrake speaks, argues that spe... by aneth4 on Sunday March 10, 2013 @04:15AM (#5351155)
FYI, the comment directly above is all quoted from someone who might have had more experience on the subject matter than anyone in this thread - Albert Einstein.

Touché

Re:TEDx talks discredited: Sheldrake speaks, argues that spe... by teamonkey on Sunday March 10, 2013 @02:07PM (#5352781)
Appeals to authority also instinctively make sense but cloud judgement.

Einstein famously said "God does not play dice"; his instinct was that probability did not have a place inside the fundamental laws of physics. His stubbornness prevented him from fully accepting the Heisenberg model for some time, although as an exemplary scientist he was able to put aside his instincts and accept that a probabilistic quantum model did describe the known observable a very well.