[dhechols]

The "evidence" here is that children "said words" and "did things" that made it seem like they were "reincarnated". Also there are some anecdotal cases of injuries other people had turing into birth defects / birth marks for other people...

Can someone please tell me what the science is here? Because my brain is melting reading this "research".

[nodemaker]

Not that I believe in re-incarnation, but nonetheless your argument is misleading.

Lets say re-incarnation actually existed....what would its evidence possibly be then anyways?

[simonh]

What Ian Stevenson collected were anecdotes, not evidence. Evidence would be statistically significant instances of characteristics, not transmittable through any other mechanism , verified against a control group. He never even proposed a mechanism for transmission that someone might actually investigate, or even prove or disprove, let alone actually conduct anything resembling a real test or experiment himself.

[nodemaker]

Yes I agree with your first statement.But then IMO one doesn'nt need to propose a mechanism for a phenomena in order to prove that the phenomena exists. Just statistically significant positive results balanced against a control group is enough.

[derpmeister]

Inception.