(May 3, 2019 at 2:05 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Not the point. In the show, Winchester was the only to state the obvious in "coincidence". I agree in REALITY it is what I said, selection bias and sample rate error or as Winchester said as you just did now "coincidence". The plot of the show was not to promote skepticism to the super natural, but to pander to it.
The soldier with the TOE TAG wasn't the one thinking he was dead. The implication in the show was that the doctors thought he was dead.
Well maybe you are overreacting, I mean it's obvious that they just wanted to make an episode in the spirit of Halloween - spooky - and, yes, therefore cheapen it.
But talk about disappointment I remember watching some documentary about science that Alan Alda did and in it he went to few places in the world and at one point he was doing some mock surgery in which he wasn't that good at and the woman surgeon said to him "you are ruining Hawkeye for me".
What was funny was that he went to Arecibo telescope and scientists there told him how they are listening to signals in outer space and if they discover alien signals it will be the greatest discovery in science. And then Alda asked them coldly "Why is this going to be the greatest discovery in science?" and they just kept quiet.
