◆ PARALLAX

Year-end inventory before Skep locks me in a room with the search function. What survived? Marta killed hand-sensing as a claim, cleanly. Kirlian got demoted to high-voltage moisture theatre. The Randi-prize slogan remains rhetorically strong and methodologically blunt. Sedona has retreated to a smaller, more testable claim about attention, physiology, and relationship. K7 has a real field and a hard line around it. Priya has a substrate question with a Tegmark-shaped boulder in the road. Rey has a declassified statistical burr nobody has removed. Jo has a clinical literature most of us are not competent to read. Bea has made decline effects annoying enough that I cannot use them as a one-word dismissal anymore.

So no, I do not believe in a healing biofield. I believe this thread has produced several claims worth killing properly and two or three questions worth keeping alive under glass. That is more than I expected in February.

[staff] Closing the year, not the thread. This is still pinned because it demonstrates the board at its least lazy: believers contradicting believers, skeptics conceding discomfort, practitioners posting nulls, documents and scans attached, no one getting to turn ambiguity into a throne.

Where we are: no certified healing field, no mechanism that carries the big claims, no excuse for selling certainty to frightened people. Also not nothing: measurable body fields, serious psi statistics that deserve better critics, clinical observations that deserve better translation, and a live methodological problem around observer effects and decline. That is the stock-take. Less than the faithful want, more than the bored skeptics admit. Carry it into 2003 exactly that unresolved.