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• Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof. There are many examples of outsiders who eventually overthrew entrenched scientific orthodoxies, but they prevailed with irrefutable data.
  More often, egregious findings that contradict well-established research turn out to be artifacts....
• In arguing that current theories of brain function cast suspicion on ESP
  psychokinesis, reincarnation, and so on, I am frequently challenged with the most popular of all neuro-mythologies -- the notion that we ordinarily use only 10 percent of our brains....
• Prevalent beliefs that knowledge can be tapped from previous incarnations or from a "universal mind" (the repository of all past wisdom and creativity) not only are implausible but also unfairly demean the stunning achievements of individual human brains.
  -- Barry L. Beyerstein, "The Brain and Consciousne...
• Inadmissible: Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with
  and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves alone....
• Fortunately, the responsibility for providing evidence is on the part of the person making the claim, not the critic.
  It is not the responsibility of UFO skeptics to prove that a UFO has never existed, nor is it the responsibility of paranormal-health-claims skeptics to prove that crystals or colored lights never healed anyone....
• Fortunately, the responsibility for providing evidence is on the part of the person making the claim, not the critic.
  It is not the responsibility of UFO skeptics to prove that a UFO has never existed, nor is it the responsibility of paranormal-health-claims skeptics to prove that crystals or colored lights never healed anyone....
• Data: "I have often wondered what it must be like to have one's mouth.
  ..water in anticipation of the arrival of a confection....
• One often hears about the need for individuals to take responsibility for their own lives.
  However, the conditions in which people find themselves have been largely established long before people become aware of them....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....