"The Inter-American Congress?" James did not shake his hand, but looked at Karen with strange eyes: "How do I not know, when the United States had an American Congress? I only know the Senate of the House of Representatives, the United States Congress." I heard that the European Union has a European Parliament, do you want to have a US alliance in the Americas?"

Karen was not embarrassed, withdrew her hand and said, "It's normal that the doctor doesn't know, because this Inter-American Council is not for ordinary people. ”

James smiled and said, "So am I an ordinary person?"

The pride of being an excellent scientist made him unable to accept that he was regarded as an ordinary person, and he was already faintly angry in his heart: these damn politicians know how to make everything worse! A dignified scientist can't get his rightful status!

He couldn't help but fall into deep contemplation, what is wrong with this country? It must be a system problem! This country eats jujube pills!

"Count it before. The other party seemed to understand James's thoughts: "But don't count now." ”

"Now?"

"That's right, now. When you verify that energy particle theory, you are not an ordinary person. ”

"What do you mean?"

Karen stretched out her hand again: "Reacquaint yourself with Karen, a member of the Inter-American Parliament, a researcher at the Center for the Study of Indian Mythology, a tribal wizard, and a host of Supernatural Television, and a doctor of theology from Harvard University." ”

"Wait......" James thought thoughtfully, "No wonder I look so familiar with you, it turns out that you are actually the host of that shabby TV station that promotes pseudoscience and religion!"

This paranormal TV station is a niche television station in the United States. However, although it is a small minority, it has a great influence, especially among those gods and fanatics who believe in supernatural powers, and so on, they have a considerable status.

Moreover, it has a decisive voice in the American religious circles. Anecdotally, some states in the United States are going to put the theory of God's choice rather than evolution in their textbooks, and they are behind it.

This is particularly disgusting to real scientists.

Of course, James doesn't watch this TV program, but as a scientist, he occasionally pays some attention to an anti-scientific public opinion position. Of course, it's all the kind of look that looks at it with great disgust. That's why James felt that Karen was a little familiar, but he didn't recognize it. It is precisely because he has seen this face more or less, but not much.

Knowing each other, James couldn't even shake hands with the other party, he felt insulted, and even held a grudge against Herman: You are a dignified, pure scientist, what is it about you to introduce yourself to a god, a liar, an anti-science fanatic?

He narrowed his eyes slightly: "I heard that the famous anti-science manifesto "Nine Commentaries on the Theory of Evolution" was written by you? God destroys science, anti-science keeps peace? What are you doing here? This is a position for scientific research, not a place for you to talk nonsense, and there is no room for you to live here!"

Karen waved her hands together and laughed, "No, no, Dr. James, don't do this." In fact, those things are nothing more than fools, and only fools, idiots, and psychopaths will believe it. But it can't be helped, there are interests in this. You know, only this kind of foolish people with insufficient IQ balance will not hesitate to give us all their possessions. Justabusiness, it's just a business, you know. ”

"Business, profit, just for business and profit, you can be anti-science?"

"Doctor, it's clear that you don't understand a point. I'd like to ask the Doctor a question, can science be defeated by business and profit?" Karen asked rhetorically.

"Of course not!" James replied without hesitation.

"In that case, what's the point of whether we're anti-science or not? Science can't be defeated anyway, and instead of letting those fools and idiots squander their wealth with no more than 20 milliliters of their brains, it's better to give us waste. At the very least, we can use the money to support scientific research. That's why the existence of that money is valuable. ”

Seeing Karen speak so naturally, James felt speechless: "Support scientific research?

"Of course, of course!" said Karen, "Otherwise, where do you think that the hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars of religious, theological, and supernatural research societies have gone every year? Can a few godheads, madmen, and fanatics get together and talk nonsense to squander this money? Or have they been filled by some people? Of course not, all this money has gone to where it is supposed to go. ”

"Where?"

"Center for Paranormal Science Research. A secretive research institute. ”

Hearing this, James looked at Karen with a look that you were tease me with: "Supernatural science? I never knew when the supernatural and science could be put in everything. ”

"Why not? At least, until our current science is advanced enough to uncover the secrets of the supernatural, we can only describe it as supernatural science, and not put it in the category of classical scientific theory. Isn't that theory you studied a crucial step? What is the essential difference between energy particles that can only be called by life and supernatural forces? Yes, we can't fully unravel its secrets now, but as long as this thing exists, it doesn't prevent us from using it before the theory is clear. ”

When he said this, James felt speechless.

"Doctor, don't you see that there are many places where the theory of energy particles deviates from traditional science? But more often than not, it is developed from traditional science. I think, isn't that exactly the value of our paranormal scientific research? Think about it, the Soviets have been doing this for decades, the Nazis have been high, of course, the United States has also done it, and even the ancient Eastern country, the United States, no, the whole Western world, all the white enemies, aren't they also doing it?"

"Could it be that this energy particle theory has something to do with that country's previous research?" Although James knew that the energy particle theory came from China, he didn't take it seriously. Because this theory is contrary to many common senses of traditional science, the higher the level of traditional science, the more difficult it is to research results. However, in the country where the level of traditional science is insufficient, it is natural for this theory to appear.

But now it seems that there is an inside story in this.

"Of course, as we all know, at a time when we, the Soviets, oh, and the Europeans, the British, and so on, were all working on supernatural powers, that country was also doing this. From the moment they opened their borders, there was a trend of studying supernatural powers called paranormal functions. Even, they adopted the methods of mass movement that they were good at, and the whole society pursued supernatural powers. So much so that Mr. Qian, a respected father of science in their country and worth more than five divisions, vigorously advocated this kind of research. ”

Karen told some secrets: "Now, many people think that such an old scientist is dazed by old age. In fact, skillful nonsense. Such an old scientist with extremely high scientific quality, even in the face of death, his scientific literacy will not be weakened by half a point. Just as Sir Newton's turn to theology in his later years was deplored, but in fact there was a reason for it, so the old scientist had good reasons for doing so. However, later, for various reasons, the government of that country suppressed the trend of people seeking supernatural powers. But it is clear that the previous trend was not without results, and this energy particle theory should be one of their achievements. ”

"Is that so?"

"Of course, I believe that such a great theory can only be summed up by a great scientist of Mr. Qian's level, not by a young man who is no more than twenty years old and has just entered the supernatural realm of their country for only a few years. Of course, it is normal for scientists to produce results at a very young age, but that is not something that a disciple who has never shown an interest in scientific research can do. That should just be a smoke bomb. I don't know what made the head of that country think that this theory should be made public in this way, I just know that this opportunity should not be missed!"

"But...... But in supernatural research, many experiments cannot be reproduced, and it is impossible to pass double-blind or triple-blind experiments, and there are many more things, you can't tell whether it is a real phenomenon or a hallucination of some hysterical patients. Since you know a lot about science, you should know that a real scientific phenomenon must be reproducible and must be able to pass the verification of double-blind and triple-blind experiments, otherwise, it cannot be recognized. ”

Double-blind and triple-blind trials are a research method used to prevent research results from being influenced by the placebo effect or observer bias, or in other words, to reduce the influence of prejudices and unintentional physical cues on experimental results. To blind a person in an experiment is to not inform him about the course of the experiment. According to the degree to which the participants were blinded, such experiments were divided into single-blind, double-blind, and triple-blind experiments.

For the orthodox scientific community, double-blind and triple-blind trials are more rigorous and acceptable. In a double-blind experiment, neither the experimenter nor the participant knew which participants belonged to the control group and which belonged to the experimental group.

Triple-blind trials, on the other hand, are an extension of the double-blind method, in which the subjects, researchers, and data analysts are not aware of the grouping and handling of the subjects. However, this method has higher requirements for the safety of the study, and the implementation needs to be more rigorous and difficult, so the double-blind method is used more.

In fact, most paranormal studies and experiments cannot be verified by the double-blind method, even the vast majority. On the other hand, paranormal research cannot theoretically boast a mathematically rigorous proof process. This is why the study of the occult is not accepted by the orthodox scientific community and is regarded as pseudoscience.