Randi on proving negatives, reindeer and the World Trade Center.


Video courtesy of JREF on YouTube.

I would query Randi on one issue from the talk though: the ability to prove a negative.

Here’s an interesting article from Steven D Hales, however, who asserts you can prove a negative.

Or as Stephen Law has eloquently written:
You can prove a negative in fact (after all “you can’t prove a negative” is a negative, so, if true, unprovable).

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  • By Tracy King, Friday, 6 November, 2009 @ 12:34

    Richard Wiseman had an even more succinct rebuttal of the claim “you can’t prove a negative”, simply replying “prove it”.

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