Category: Psi
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My post on Michael Shermer's anomalous experience has prompted the question: how can "the other side" possibly coordinate such episodes? What is the method? I don't pretend to have any kind of definitive answer to this question. But I can hazard a couple of guesses, at least in regard to an experience of my own.…
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Today I happened to come across an interesting piece of information online. It involves Project Star Gate, the government-funded investigation of remote viewing that was shut down in 1995. Here's the skinny from the relevant website, Stargate Interactive: Stories of the 1995 ending of the Star Gate program vary, but many have Ray Hyman saying…
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I'm linking to a political post in The Federalist, but my purpose is not to start a political discussion. What's interesting about this article, "Why Is Wikipedia Deleting All References to Neil Tyson's Fabrication?", is what it says about the mindset of hardcore science fans (as distinguished from actual scientists), many of whom undoubtedly fall…
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This post consists of two unrelated topics. I don't have a lot to say about either of them, but together they add up to one barely adequate post. First, I was interested in an article that a commenter named Ingrid pointed out in a previous thread. The article, "How Understanding Randomness Will Give You Mind-Reading…
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On his blog, Michael Sudduth has posted a detailed response to some of the criticisms he received in the comments thread of this post. He calls it "Response to Prescott's Minions," which made me think of this guy: If you don't know, that's a minion from Despicable Me. I haven't had a chance to actually…
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Psi proponents often gripe about biased and inaccurate coverage of the paranormal on Wikipedia. Longtime parapsychology researcher and laser physicist Russell Targ has complained about Wiki’s characterization of his work as “pseudoscience.” Biologist Rupert Sheldrake, who has investigated psychic phenomena, has likewise had his problems with Wiki. But the issues with Wikipedia seem to go…
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I was happy to get a detailed response from Michael Sudduth to my critique of his arguments on survival and psi. With his permission, I'm publishing it in full; the only alterations are some minor formatting changes and the addition of a couple of links. Dr. Sudduth's remarks follow. —- Thanks for your continued discussion…
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I've thought a little more about Michael Sudduth's objections to the survivalist argument. What follows is basically an expansion on my comments in a previous thread. Michael Sudduth argues that survivalists are wrong to claim certain kinds of evidence as indicative of postmortem survival, because the instances they cite require untested "auxiliary assumptions" that are…
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I'm bored with the global warming debate on the last thread, so here's an attempt to change the subject. Michael Sudduth has put out a rejoinder to Chris Carter's attack on the super-psi hypothesis (found in his book Science and the Afterlife Experience). So far I've only had time to skim Michael's essay. My off-the-cuff…
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Yale scientists recently demonstrated that MRI technology can be used to determine what mental image a test subject is concentrating on. Apparently such tests had already shown that a brain scan can show whether the person is thinking of, say, a building or an animal. But the new tests allow much more precise results, establishing…