Originally Posted by
HypnoPsi
Thank you for clearing that up. But it leaves another question about why Natasha wasn't being closely observed during the entire experiment. It's a bit hard to hide a mobile phone, Andrew
Have you been around these past several years? Cell phones now are almost small enough to accidentally inhale.
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...You mean that she was informed to turn off and hand over her mobile phone and didn't comply?
No, I don't mean that. I don't know how or by whom her cell phone use was detected. I only heard about it after the test was completed. I was not in the test room during the test.
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I am not accusing you, Ray or Richard of this, Andrew. I'm just pointing out that skeptics in general should not blame Natasha for any breach in controls. Scientists are responsible for controls and ensuring they remain in place.
Yes, that's true. And it would have been very nice if we were allowed to fully control the entire test situation. But we were not. This is why we wanted Discovery Channel to make it clear that our test was only a preliminary examination to see if more a carefully controlled study is warranted.
Again, we're not playing any blame game over the cellphone incident. We just rightfully reported the incident and several other violations of test protocols, our own as well as Natasha's. So I don't understand your point. You seem to be blaming us for reporting this flaw in the study. Had we not reported it, we would be accused of covering it up.