Dean Radin: Intentional Chocolate And The Will To Disbelieve

Dean Radin, on his blog Entangled Minds, writes about a negative article in the L.A. Times about "intentional chocolate" a study Radin was involved with. In that study, Radin found that chocolate that was positively focused on by "experienced meditators" had a beneficial effect. Among other things, Radin asks why it is that some are so intent on disbelieving, even when data doesn't support the disbelieve? Instead of looking at the data, the Times writer does what many an uber-skeptoid does; simply trivialize such data and the people doing the studies as unimportant. And if they can't believe such a thing is possible because it can't be figured out how, and why, it doesn't exist. Even though it does. (for example, psychic or precognitive events: you can't see what hasn't happened yet is the assumption, so therefore you're: lying, fooled yourself, cherry picking, a victim of confirmation bias, and so on.)