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Charles Bailey
Charles Bailey (1870-1947) was an Australian medium known for an ability to produce ‘apports’ of great variety. Investigations provide some support for his genuineness, but he was also often caught in dubious circumstances.
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...les-bailey
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Just came across this recent blog post by Tom Ruffles, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of the Psi Encyclopedia (actually, mostly its weaknesses):
http://tomruffles.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04...pedia.html
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Ariel Farias
This article describes successful psychokinesis experiments carried out in a laboratory in Buenos Aires betweeen 2013 and 2015. The subject was Ariel Farias, an Argentinian factory worker and martial arts teacher with no professional interests as a psychic. 
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...iel-farias
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Kenneth Batcheldor
Kenneth Batcheldor (1921-1988) was a British psychologist who during the 1960s and 1970s carried out groundbreaking experiments in macro-psychokinesis (PK), based on the nineteenth century activity of ‘table tipping’.  Batcheldor investigated which states of mind were conducive to PK of this kind, which tended to inhibit it, and how to create psychological conditions for anyone to produce it.
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...batcheldor

Ted Owens ["the PK Man"]
Ted Owens (1920-1987) was an American who won notoriety by claiming macro-psychokinetic (PK) powers: an ability to control the weather on a large scale, direct lightning strikes, and cause or predict accidents. He claimed he was the agent of alien ‘space intelligences’ acting through him.  His purported abilities were never tested under controlled conditions. However, certain observers were impressed by the frequency with which his predictions of future events matched the reality.
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/ted-owens
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Creery Telepathy Experiments
Beginning in 1880, investigators carried out experiments in telepathy with an English family of five sisters aged between ten and seventeen, reporting a high degree of success. The findings were discredited eight years later after two of the girls were discovered to have cheated by secret signaling, although this method would have been too limited to have caused the earlier positive results.
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...xperiments
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(2018-06-17, 08:39 AM)Chris Wrote: Another:

Creery Telepathy Experiments
Beginning in 1880, investigators carried out experiments in telepathy with an English family of five sisters aged between ten and seventeen, reporting a high degree of success. The findings were discredited eight years later after two of the girls were discovered to have cheated by secret signaling, although this method would have been too limited to have caused the earlier positive results.
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...xperiments

I'm not in a position to confirm or deny this specific case. However it does seem to illustrate something I've noted before. Spontaneous effects can be very strong, but put them under scrutiny and they may get weaker or disappear.

Rather than crying 'foul', I would make an analogy with a musical performance. When performing live, rather than in a recording studio, not all performances are the same, some may be wonderful, others dire. It may not always be possible to re-create the 'something' which energised a particular rendition.
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Heh... enpsiclopedia...

Obvious joke is obvious.
"The cure for bad information is more information."
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Three more articles:

Fraud in Science and Parapsychology
It is often claimed that positive experimental findings with regard to psi phenomena may be attributed to rampant fraud on the part of researchers.  In this article, British parapsychologist Chris Roe considers the true incidence of fraud in the field of parapsychology and how it compares with other scientific disciplines.
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...psychology

Sean Harribance
Sean Harribance is a Trinidadian psychic of Indian descent, who participated in ESP and PK experiments with American researchers from the 1970s.
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...harribance

Parapsychology in Psychology Textbooks
This article describes how psychology textbooks fail even to mention the closely-related topic of parapsychology, or else persistently misinform their readers about it. The effect is that generations of psychology students are being indoctrinated with unwarranted negative perceptions.  
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...-textbooks
I thought it was interesting that in two of those articles, Chris Roe quoted Colman (1987) as saying the history of parapsychology had been "disfigured by numerous cases of fraud involving some of the most highly respected scientists, their colleagues and participants". In both cases the quotation comes via works by Richard Gross, but the source seems to be A. M. Colman's book, "Facts, fallacies and frauds in psychology".

As Roe points out, the number of cases of publicly proven fraud in parapsychology is very small - essentially just those of Samuel G. Soal in the 1940s and 1950s and Walter J. Levy in the 1970s. In a paper, Rhine also mentioned a dozen unnamed "unreliable" researchers in the 1940s and 1950s - apparently most of them outside academia and/or outside the USA. Evidently suspicions have been expressed about others. But on that basis it's difficult to understand how Colman could have written what he did. (Judging by Amazon/Google Books, the quotation seems to have been removed from the latest (2015) edition of Gross's psychology textbook.)
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