parapsychology

I have just read a volume in series of the book Understanding the World and in it is chapter on parapsychology by Mario Bunge. Here are some of the points he makes: Precognition violates the principle of antecedence ("causality"), according to which the effect does not happen before the...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/01/precognitive-dreaming-dismissed-science Or not. Hmmm: Anyone heard of this guy? He's written a book called "Randi's Prize: What Sceptical Scientists Say About the Paranormal, Why They are Wrong and Why it Matters". Sounds like an...

Hello Zanders, here is a thread about mystical interpretations for you. The skeleton key to understanding mystical interpretations of sacred texts is comprised of four parts. Each part is a complex challenge and each part is necessary because so much has been lost or altered over time, as you...

http://dbem.ws/FeelingFuture.pdf Author's other pubs: http://dbem.ws/pubs.html Quoting from the PDF: Read (first) and discuss. Perhaps he should be proactively contacted by JREF to discuss a prize challenge? It's published (peer-reviewed, even) and the effects they claim certainly seem...

Hi folks, I'm a skeptic, though I hang out on some proponent oriented sites (Skeptiko for example). The critique that I hear most often (after the compulsory vilification of James Randi :)) is that skeptics just aren't really familiar with the parapsychology literature, or are stuck on old...

(Hi from your friends at www.skeptiko.com :)) JSPR has published a penetrating critique by Chris Carter of Richard Wiseman's latest attack on parapsychology - his 'Heads I win, tails you lose' paper published in Skeptical Inquirer. Chris Carter's reply...

Found this CNN article about earning a Parapsychology MSc degree: According to Coventry:

I've just been watching Tony Robinson's demolition of Dan Brown's most recent twaddle on Channel 4 (UK TV), and was intrigued to see one of the Psyleron random number generators (Psyleron is a spin-off from PEAR) being used in an experiment in which Robinson tried to influence the RNG. According...

At long last my long-awaited review of the book Outside the Gates of Science: Why it's time for the paranormal to come in from the cold, by Damien Broderick, is published. The review can be found, here: http://www.mitchlampert.net/News.aspx?R=191 Comments, of course, can be posted on this...

Hans Holzer has died at the age of 89. He claimed a doctorate from a non-existent University, taught Parapsychology at a trade school in New York and wrote more than 100 books including a book or two about Amityville.

I have to go out now and have not had time to read the thread in question properly but I just noticed another thread mentioning Sue Blackmore, and it reminded me of something. There seems to be this widespread sceptical myth that all parapsychologists are delusional woo peddlers who spend their...

http://www.dailygrail.com/news/randi-wrong-on-parapsychology-research I was wondering if anyone would be interested in watching the video, reading the blog post in which it is in, and commenting. Thanks in advance!

At my high school, I'm enrolled in an AP World History class. We've finished both our textbook and our exams, so my teacher decided to shift the class's focus to postmodernism and how our perception of reality is changing. One of the major themes we are now exploring is how "enchanted" the world...

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/features/Edinburghs-answer-to-the-ghostbusters.4072400.jp ^Dr Caroline Watt of the University of Edinburgh Koestler unit (interestingly enough she's Richard Wiseman's partner), has had some bold claims made on her behalf by the above paper; Is anyone familiar...

Hullo! I am currently reading through the article Results of the Application of the Robertson - Roy Protocol to a series of experiments with Mediums and Participants from the JSPR volume 68. Has anyone critiqued this paper or found methodological flaws to date? This was the third version of...

Woo woo master Deepak Chopra is touting him: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-mind-outside-the-body_b_50389.html Dr. Dick Bierman is using real-time brain scans to see if people sense things before they happen. Sounds like something that needs to be given Randi's attention.

Those of us in the Conspiracy Section have been discussing David Ray Griffin, the guru of the 9-11 "Truth" Movement, but I was not aware that he was also a parapsychology huckster as well until yesterday afternoon. In 1997, he wrote a book called Parapsychology, Philosophy and Spirituality, a...

I used to get e-books from them. But now I really don't trust what they say. I've been going through many popular buddhist sources and have been finding them all blathering this type of stupidity when it comes to rebirth. This type of thing is always holding me back from doing research.

For those of you who don't know, Parapsychology is the study of things 'supernatural'. Be it Bigfoot, UFOs, Psychics, etc. Parapsychology is the study of all of that. There are many parapsychology organizations including the 'Parapsychological Association' who also happens to be an affiliate of...

I think there is a fundamental problem with Parapsychology that has nothing to do with the object of study per-se (where other fundamental problems exist). I would be interested in the thoughts and suggestions of others on this. Let me start with a tangent. I believe it is the case in the USA...

About a month or so ago Louie Savva wrote an entry on his blog about why he left parapsychology. It makes for interesting reading. On my part, it's interesting that the large scale ganzfeld experiment he was helping to conduct is still unfinished. But what really caught my eye was this: You...

Well is it? A field that has never produced a repeatable 'paranormal effect' makes it unique in scientific terms. I see parapsychology like a kind of pressure group (like Greenpeace). Parapsychology did help to get OBEs, NDEs, chance-perception, apparitional experiences etc, on the mainstream...

Where do these fit in to the overall picture of woo and skeptic? This place, for example, appears to be biased towards the existence of "psi" phenomena, despite any real evidence whatever. A search of the forum shows that they have an affiliated journal (the "European" journal), but I can find...

I'm thinking of subscribing to a parapsychology journal, but I'm not too au fait with their various reputations. I've got online access at the moment to The Journal of Parapsychology, but I'm not wholly convinced about the Rhine Institute of Parapsychology of which the journal is a publication...

We know that "psi" primarily comes in the form of reported experiences that seem to indicate something bizzare and unexpected about the nature of the mind or consciousness. However, there are many normal explanations that can be offered for these experiences and the experiences are either easily...

Full text of articles in the issues of The Journal of Parapsychology from 1989 through 2003 are now available online: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2320

Can anyone think of a particular parapsychology experiment that's been done already that, if performed successfully in the company of JREF, would qualify for the million?

Here is a link to an article that is critical of critics of parapsychology, written by Nancy Zingrone of the Parapsychology Foundation. http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/exam/Zingrone_critics.htm

Literally, this time... German TV Station RTL has invited the infamous Uri "hand-bent cutlery" Geller to psychically influence a soccer match between what might rightly be considered the two worst teams in all of Germany (after all they were selected by RTL on this criterium). There´ll be an...

Statistical Science, 1991, Vol. 6., No. 4, 363-403, contains very interesting discussions on "REPLICATION AND META-ANALYSIS IN PARAPSYCHOLOGY". The paper to start off the discussion is by Utts, with following comments by Bayarri and Berger, Dawson, Diaconis, Greenhouse, Hyman, Morris...