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SkyDaddy7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-11 05:02 AM
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ABC News Woo-Woo promotion...
Watch this ABC "News" clip & tell me if you think they prove the case for what they call "Twin Telepathy".

Personally, I kept waiting & waiting...And when the stories were over I was like WTF?!?!? This is what they claim is evidence for magical twin powers?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBVq2BcO9eU&feature=feedu
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frogmarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-01-11 04:33 PM
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1. Same here. I kept waiting for something
really convincing and cool to be revealed, but nothing happened. The whole thing is ridiculous.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-11 03:04 PM
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2. This "phenomenon" has a very natural explanation
No need to go into too much technical data either. If we are talking identical twins, their brains, at least at birth, are chemically, structurally and physically the same. Because of the shared DNA, these brains would develop at the same rate, with the same chemicals, etc. So when Twin A thinks of, say, a wheelbarrow - there is a chance that, due to the similar structure, Twin B would think of a wheelbarrow at the same time. Both brains have been conditioned similarly, and will respond in a similar way.

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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-11 10:08 PM
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3. That's my thinking, too.
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