RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 27, 2016 at 5:27 pm
With respect to the definition given for anecdotal... If that definition were universally applied then it would rule out all drug studies that rely on qualitative reports of affect by patients. Basically by that standard you have invalided research into painkillers, psychotropic drugs and mental health therapies. An organized collection of subjective reports counts as a data set from which scientific conclusions may be drawn. True anecdotes are outliers. The attempt to dismiss NDE research on that basis is misguided.
As for the NDE researchers I consider credible, they include Drs. Jeffrey Long, Sam Parnia, Pim van Pommel, and Bruce Greyson. THey have systematically collected data and published there results and in some instances their studies replicated. I am not aware of any skeptic who has performed any similarly rigorous research.
As for the NDE researchers I consider credible, they include Drs. Jeffrey Long, Sam Parnia, Pim van Pommel, and Bruce Greyson. THey have systematically collected data and published there results and in some instances their studies replicated. I am not aware of any skeptic who has performed any similarly rigorous research.
