Eben Alexander blatantly lies for a cheap applause line at 1:26:30 by misquoting Carl Sagan as saying that he thinks that the evidence for past life experiences in children is overwhelming. Eben cited Sagans Demon-Haunted World, pg 302. If you read Sagan, Ebens dishonesty becomes immediately apparent: “Perhaps one percent of the time, someone who has an idea that smells, feels, and looks indistinguishable from the usual run of pseudoscience will turn out to be right. Maybe some undiscovered reptile left over from the Cretaceous period will indeed be found in Loch Ness or the Congo Republic; or we will find artifacts of an advanced, non-human species elsewhere in the Solar System. At the time of writing there are three claims in the ESP field which, in my opinion, deserve serious study: (1) that by thought alone humans can (barely) affect random number generators in computers; (2) that young children sometimes report the details of a previous life, which upon checking turn out to be accurate and which they could not have known about in any other way than reincarnation; (3) that people under mild sensory deprivation can receive thoughts or images “projected” at them. I pick these claims not because I think they’re likely to be valid (I don’t), but as examples of contentions that might be true. The last three have at least some, although still dubious, experimental support. Of course, I could be wrong.” ~Demon-Haunted World, pg 302 - Carl Sagan Eben is disgraceful. - aoflex
Posted on: Fri, 16 May 2014 17:05:48 +0000
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