What modern scientists? WT quotes Mechanix Illustrated on spiritistic manifestations

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  VM44

  This is the question for paragraph 9 in the 1955 WT study article on "Survival After Death"

  9. What is the position of modern scientists on spiritistic manifestations?

  Read paragraph 9 below and tell me just exactly what "modern scientists" (note the plural) are mentioned in it.

  Also, note the source of the article, the well known scientific journal Mechanix Illustrated!

  *** w55 9/1 p. 526 par. 9 Part 1—What Do the Scriptures Say About “Survival After Death”? ***
  9 Spiritualists, sure of themselves, have willingly let their spiritistic manifestations be investigated and put to the test by hard-headed, materialistic scientists of the day. While much that has passed for spiritualism commercially had been exposed as a fraud, science has come away from many investigations baffled by the results of their foolproof tests. It has been obliged to agree that there are living, intelligent forces in the realm of the unseen. In an article entitled “They Never Come Back” by Lester David he quotes Hereward Carrington, director of the American Psychical Institute, as saying: “Despite the illusion, fraud and superstition which have unfortunately associated themselves with this subject, there are genuine psychic phenomena which are unexplained by modern science.” In the following paragraph regarding appearings or apparitions of the dead Lester David says: “The American Society for Psychical Research once received 30,000 replies to a questionnaire it distributed on this phase. After studying the reports, it concluded: ‘Between deaths and apparitions of the dying person a connection exists which is not due to chance alone. This we hold as a proven fact.’”—Mechanix Illustrated, December, 1952, pages 166, 167.
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  Terry

  Hereward Carrington, director of the American Psychical Institute, as saying: “Despite the illusion, fraud and superstition which have unfortunately associated themselves with this subject, there are genuine psychic phenomena which are unexplained by modern science.”

  This is like having the Director of Red Haired Jugglers Institute say, "Despite the evidence against the belief that red-haired people are better jugglers there are inexplicable reasons why we assert people with Red Hair can juggle better."

  Ford buyers can't say anything nice about Chevrolets.

  You may as well quote a UFO-ologist on the existence of flying saucers.

  G.I.G.O.
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  VM44

  The WT article makes this statement:

  "Spiritualists, sure of themselves, have willingly let their spiritistic manifestations be investigated and put to the test by hard-headed, materialistic scientists of the day."

  Compare that with what Martin Gardner wrote in his book The Night is Large (St. Martin's Press, 1996, page 214)

  "As all magicians know, men of science are the easiest of all people to fool. Electrons and microbes don't cheat. Psychics do."
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  breakfast of champions

  This is certainly some great spiritual food from God's sole channel of communication that anyone with the current cd rom can look up, no need for an extensive collection of older pubs. Fun fun fun!!!