(2019-02-04, 09:26 AM)Chris Wrote: [ -> ]Here's another, entitled Does “Anomalous Healing” Need the Healer?, by William F. Bengston, the president of the SSE:
Bengston's claims are rather dramatic. Generally they seem to have been ignored rather than criticised.
Five years ago on Skeptiko,
Johann opened a thread for discussion of Bengston's studies on mice, but his post attracted zero replies:
http://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/fo...udies.733/
(2019-02-08, 12:35 AM)Chris Wrote: [ -> ]Bengston's claims are rather dramatic. Generally they seem to have been ignored rather than criticised.
Five years ago on Skeptiko, Johann opened a thread for discussion of Bengston's studies on mice, but his post attracted zero replies:
http://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/fo...udies.733/
Interesting observation, regarding this topic, or Bengston in particular being neglected. That particular section of Skeptiko is now read-only and no replies are possible. If I recall, there had been some other thread or threads on his work on Skeptiko which did attract some discussion.
(2019-02-08, 07:03 AM)Typoz Wrote: [ -> ]If I recall, there had been some other thread or threads on his work on Skeptiko which did attract some discussion.
There was a Skeptiko episode with Bill Bengston,
#185 (as best I recall I haven't listened to it yet).
Checking the Index under
Spiritual and psychic healing/therapy modalities, I find not just the official show thread for episode #185, but also a later unofficial follow-up thread, plus a "[Resources]" thread started by K9!:
(2019-02-09, 03:34 AM)Laird Wrote: [ -> ]There was a Skeptiko episode with Bill Bengston, #185 (as best I recall I haven't listened to it yet).
Checking the Index under Spiritual and psychic healing/therapy modalities, I find not just the official show thread for episode #185, but also a later unofficial follow-up thread, plus a "[Resources]" thread started by K9!:
Thanks for this. I think probably the more substantive discussion of Bengston's experiments, which led to Johann's post, is in (or around) pages 41-49 of this thread:
http://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/ar...t-all.577/
But I thought it was striking that after Johann went to the trouble of setting up a dedicated thread and writing an introduction to it - including a note that Bengston's results had been replicated, contrary to his previous impression - there was no more discussion at all.
Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - Michael Prescott picked up a copy of James Randi's "An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural" (1995) at a second-hand bookshop, in the thought that he could get a blog post out of it, and did so:
https://michaelprescott.typepad.com/mich...azing.html
Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - here's a podcast I hadn't seen before:
https://www.weirdstudies.com/
Professor Phil Ford and writer/filmmaker J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality."
It includes some episodes on parapsychology - the latest is entitled "Doomed to Enchantment: The Psychical Research of William James."