experiments

- Identifying a Problem (Can the Scientific Method be understood?) -Forming a hypothesis (It is a phrase with many meanings, understanding difficult) -Collecting and Analyzing Data (Do research, see links below) - Designing and Performing Experiments (start discussions on science based Internet...

I've been looking at a lot of the Truther "experiments" lately. (see some at: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96972). I especially liked the WTC fire simulation using two concrete plates and a roll of chicken wire. Very scientific. So I've decided to do some of my...

The criterion here is elegance. Can you suggest some experiments which were a nice elegant test of a hypothesis, the elegance of which can be explained to someone outside the field? Thank you.

I said "science" in my title, but what I meant was the science of thinking (psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, etc.). Which is what I think many of the readers of this forum are interested in, anyway. A little while back, I wanted to do an experiment about birth order effects. That is, does...

Hello, I run a number of experiments off our lab website (vacognition.wjh.harvard.edu). Most take about 5 minutes, and at the end you can find out what it was all about. This is a variation on the open-source movement -- instead of paying a small number of people to spend a lot of time in the...

Anyone read this book yet? I decided to see what the opposition were up to, and this seems to be an example of some of the "best" available evidence for an afterlife. I'd already heard a LOT of bad things about this book, the experiments, and Dr Schwartz himself, but I figured maybe, just MAYBE...

I wanted a chance to ask everyone who does research this question. What theory or hypothesis have you made that turned out to be wrong was the hardest to let go? While the ideal is that we will all abandon ideas when evidence reveals itself, it isn't always easy. It may take several...

Has this topic been discussed on the board yet?!: http://www.lfr.org/LFR/csl/media/videoclips/DiscoveryCA/discoveryCA.html

warning: lots o' readin' http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kelly06/kelly06_index.html I used to hear the kooks say their experiments would be triple-blind, making them better than double-blind studies. I guess I was wrong to make fun of them.

Hi all I'm a regular on Derek Acorahs forum and concider myself an openminded sceptic. I won't to get both sides to the debate so i thought i'd ask here. Has anyone read the book The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death by Gary Schwartz? If so what did...

Rupert Sheldrake has been conducting an online experiment in remote staring that is completely uncontrolled. Basically, two participants are given instructions to play the role of sender and receiver. The sender is given an instruction to either stare or not stare (chosen randomly) and is told...

Hello everybody, great site for share ideas and thoughts Although im a convert skeptic in free energy since some time ago , yet there are some results that confuse me and i want to hear your opinions about this avramenko experiment hooper-monstein experiment chernetsky experiment ampere force...

I've recently read the articles where Hyman and Randi criticize the research done by Gary Schwartz in his "Afterlife Experiments" I have also read the responses by Gary and the answers from Randy and Hyman and again the responses by Gary which isn't viewable on this website. The criticism by...

Can Lanford See Through Metal? The Tests An amazing series of psychic tests were completed in June of this year at a quiet location in the suburbs of Des Moines, Iowa. The subject of these tests, who uses the nom-de-guerre of “Lanford”, was able to accurately perceive printed shapes that...

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Since the accumulated data from the ganzfeld studies are, as H.J. Irwin writes in his Introduction to Parapsychology, "...increasingly being cited as scientific testimony not only for the ganzfeld effect but for the existence of psi itself," the question as to whether or not the evidence is...

I bought a digital camera the other day and I thought for my first photos that I would take some pictures of some experiments that I did with mirrors a while ago. These all use one foot square unbevelled mirror tiles from the hardward store. The first three photos were composed with one...

And here I thought physical mediumship was dead. Not so! The Scole experiments are a bunch of experiments done with physical mediums in Scole, UK. All the usual stuff with apports, moving lights, materializations, projecting pictures onto film, you name it. They even published a book in 1999...

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