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Old November 2nd 18, 09:35 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Gary Harnagel
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Default Neil DeGrasse Tyson headed down same loony road as Carl Sagan?

On Friday, November 2, 2018 at 12:47:41 PM UTC-6, Paul Schlyter wrote:

On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 07:57:33 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel
wrote:

On Friday, November 2, 2018 at 8:49:31 AM UTC-6, Paul Schlyter wrote:

It is not impossible for sudden changes to happen minutes after
death...


But something very unusual happened at the time of death in all four
cases. Two of the four had NO anomalous weight change which happened
after that.

The anomalous weight changes of the other two afterwards must be due to
some other phenomenon than the change that occurred simultaneously with
death.


Maybe the weight changes at death also was due to "some other
phenomenon"? Including quirky behavior of the balances... It is hard
to rule out that possibility without repetitions of the experiment,
preferably using other kinds of balances.


"May be" "Could be" "might be" "quirky balances" "hard to rule out"

These are all excuses, not refutations.

Again, extraordinary claims


But considering all the NDE evidence that supports existence after death,
they aren't that "extraordinary."

require extraordinary evidence.


That depends on how you define "extraordinary." I find LOTS of supporting
evidence, most of it anecdotal, but one would have to be a very suspicious,
distrusting soul to write off millions of people who report such experiences
yet have NO evidence to the contrary, IMHO.