I was thinking
How many times the Wright brothers, Einstine, or Nickoli Tesla were told somthing like this
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Stop living in a dream world, children, our minds are deficient enough, we don't need people dumbing others down with superstition and pseudoscience... pseudo meaning fake, and science. Fake science. You like science? study bio, chem, geo, phys. Something useful. Don't waste your time trying to do something impossible"
"Thinking something impossible based on the laws of science is "freeing your mind" " to bad the Curies, Franklin, Goddard, Howard Hughes, and Dr. Jonas Salk didn't know this.
"Especially, you, Soulcry... ask them for one piece of hard, empirical, verifiable, non-falsifiable piece of evidence that psi exists, and they cannot give it to you. I guarantee you that. Anecdote, conspiracy theory, assertions, assumptions, and the like are not evidence"
Here I agree with you that they are not measurable evidence. They are however indicative evidence which one must have to asses the situation and devise experiments with.
here are some definitions:
empirical: experiential, experimental, observed, pragmatic, practical
assertion: declaration, statement, claim, allegation, contention, affirmation
assumption: supposition, statement, postulation, hypothesis, guess, best guess, theory, conjecture, notion, belief, idea
evidence: proof, indication, show
someone who wishes to be a scientist should be careful with his words.
"one thing: scientific experiments cannot be based on assumptions, they cannot be valid. Just thought I'd let you know... ::smirk:: "
with respect