Shug on 7/5/2010 at 02:02
Quote Posted by Bluegrime
My previous joking aside, this is getting pretty interesting. I love how people are calling bullshit in the face of CONSTANT VIDEO SURVEILLANCE BY MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and I'm assuming the CCTV footage is not available to anybody outside the medical team, and therefore may not even exist. Your post is pretty close to the essence of gullibility, I'm sorry to say. Maybe the guy can do what he says, but they'll need to do this more transparently to prove it to the world.
Queue on 7/5/2010 at 02:35
Quote Posted by witherflower
I'm saying I believe that it is plausible that a human being can absorb sufficient amounts of energy to survive without eating or drinking in the traditional sense.
No.
Energy and nutrition are two different things. Without sufficient nutrition, mental retardation sets in, followed by death. Plain and simple. No other-worldly, hebee-jebbe bullshit can negate this simple fact.
Quote Posted by Bluegrime
I love how people are calling bullshit in the face of CONSTANT VIDEO SURVEILLANCE BY MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS. ...
My main question to the "he is bullshitting" people is.. How? Are you suggesting there is a conspiracy among the doctors, staff, people viewing the CCTV and all the attention focused on this locally?
Who setup the CCTV? There's your answer.
Look, you have to realize that there is basically two types of people in the world: Carnies and Rubes. Most of the world is populated by rubes, and there are always carnies standing at the ready to somehow profit off them.
Fafhrd on 7/5/2010 at 02:49
(
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/04/they_arent_doing_the_right_tes.php) PZ Myers weighed in on this a few days ago. The procedures sound
extremely sloppy. He's not 'basically in solitary confinement,' he's got cameras in his bedroom and a third camera that follows him when he goes outside. The gaps in this system sound ridiculously large.
I'm with Shug on this. Short of the medical team putting up a livestream from all the cameras monitoring him, it's patently bullshit and a waste of whatever grant money the doctors running this test have received.
Bluegrime on 7/5/2010 at 03:08
Oh, fuck everything I said with a barge pole then. I assumed they were doing actual research and actually keeping him under constant surveillance. I'll definately be calling the self help line when I'm feeling blue, tho. :(
Queue on 7/5/2010 at 03:15
I wouldn't -- They're actually just doing marketing research to see what brand of deodorant you wear.
witherflower on 7/5/2010 at 07:43
I stand my ground.
PigLick on 7/5/2010 at 07:46
how about you try not eating and drinking while you do that bub
SubJeff on 7/5/2010 at 08:19
I love that TTLG tends to be populated by sensible people with only the occasional hippy.
I was going to reply to Blue in the same way but that wall of naive stopped me bothering.
Quote Posted by witherflower
Even in the face of reasonable doubt or arguments I'll not budge on my stance because it's what I
want to believe and no amount of sense will make me see otherwise. Ergo, I'm stupid. But you already knew that, right? I'm off to knit some yoghurt and grow a wicker basket now. Laters.
witherflower on 7/5/2010 at 14:37
@Subjective Effect: You had me laughing there, pal... And that's a good thing- thanks. I'm also a firm believer in sub-atomic particles, though I've never seen one. And I hear quarks cannot exist on their own, so this is all just a figment of our imagination apparantly. I've also stumbled across information of tesseracts and ideas of dimensions beyond the three we're accustomed to. So if this universe should consist of more than what meets our 3d minds, then we'll never know until we let go of that rather limited view. And I don't knit yoghurt, you won't get the right flavour that way... the proper way is quilting.
vurt on 7/5/2010 at 14:37
Hardly the first time you read about this.. it usually comes out that no, they don't drink water or eat food, but that they do in fact drink a juice that they make (what a surprise...)
