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Online Bettors Can Sniff Out Weak Psychology Studies


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    1 Replies

Sci, 2018-08-29, 10:29 PM

Online Bettors Can Sniff Out Weak Psychology Studies, So why can't the journals that publish them?

by Ed Young

[quote]Critics have argued that the so-calle

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Roberto Calasso and the psychic persistence of the gods


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    1 Replies

Sci, 2018-08-29, 09:25 PM

Roberto Calasso and the psychic persistence of the gods (Author unlisted, maybe I missed it? Huh )

http://www.faena.com/aleph/articles/robe...-the-gods/

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Calasso wonders: “But, happiness? Which of our modern scholars has ever dared consider poss

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Tom Ruffles's experiment on precognitive wisdom of crowds


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    1 Replies

Chris, 2018-08-28, 08:23 AM

Tom Ruffles is having another go at a "wisdom of crowds" experiment with a precognitive aspect, previously attempted unsuccessfully by the late Ron Pearson:
https://tomruffles.blogspot.com/2018/08/...lcano.html

It involves guessing when the Yellowstone supervolcano i

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Feelings & Emotions.


General off-topic forum    21 Replies

Stan Woolley, 2018-08-27, 09:41 AM

I read or heard something recently about this, but as so often happens, I’ve forgotten the detail. I do remember the gist of what was being said, it was that we should try to dampen our emotions while encouraging our feelings. Feelings = good while Emotions = bad.

I have tried to think about this

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Why I Changed My Mind - Waney Squier


General off-topic forum    8 Replies

Typoz, 2018-08-27, 05:53 AM

This isn't an easy subject to bring up, since it has a personal impact. Actually I was not directly affected, but was at the edges of a situation involving the topic here.
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World-renowned doctor, Waney Squier, tells Dominic Lawson the price she paid for changing her mind about shaken-baby s

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Thoughts on strength of reincarnation evidence?


Reincarnation forum    31 Replies

Roberta, 2018-08-26, 10:29 AM

Hello fellow Psiquesters!

I have been following a lot of reincarnation research recently, reading papers, and currently watching a presentation by Ian Stevenson.

What are people's thoughts on the strength of the evidence for reincarnation?

In my view the evidence is pretty strong, if not th

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Dean Radin's Quantum Noise Generator (QNG)


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    1 Replies

Chris, 2018-08-26, 10:16 AM

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Towards the end Radin talks about a new device consisting of 32 channels of "quantum noise", in which, rather than the approach used in previous micro-PK work and the Global Consciousness Project, the raw noise is recorded rather than being transfor

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Dinosaur DNA clues


Off-topic mainstream science forum    No Replies

Typoz, 2018-08-26, 08:16 AM

Dinosaur DNA clues unpicked by researchers at University of Kent

[quote]
"The fossil evidence and now our evidence reinforces the idea that rather than birds and dinosaurs being distant relatives, they are one in the same. The bi

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PBS Space Time - How will the Universe end?


General paranormal phenomena forum    5 Replies

Steve001, 2018-08-25, 02:42 PM

A short video detailing with our current understanding how the Universe in an non-intuitively comprehendable amount 
of time will end.
https://youtu.be/Qg4vb-KH5F4


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Reddit thread on what people who died and came back experienced


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    27 Replies

Roberta, 2018-08-25, 09:03 AM

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comme..._what_did/

Interesting Reddit thread with people giving stories of what themselves and their relatives experienced whilst clinically dead. Worth a read - thought the forum would appreciate!


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