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James Randi: Why you can't prove a negative
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James Randi: Why you can't prove a negative
October 25, 2011 at 10:56 pm
Part of a 1992 lecture by The Amazing Randi at Caltech, in which he discusses why the burden of proof is on the claimant, not the sceptic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWJTUAezx...grec_index
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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October 26, 2011 at 1:39 am
I can prove a negative!

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