The recent discussion over whether Bem's "Feeling the Future" deserves retraction, plus claims from parapsychologists about the quality of their work in comparison to psychology, seems to set the bar too low for parapsychology. There is no question that the practices which psychologists engage in (t
Rey Hernandez, co-founder of FREE, has released their findings from surveys of ~ 4,000 ET contactees misnomered as "alien abduction" victims. I have taken the survey, it is three parts, and takes several hours to complete. It is taken anonymously, over a period
This was a rather large controversy a couple years back in the world of psychology, but my question is: does this carry over into parapsychology at all? I've heard a couple times before that the standards of parapsychologists are much more tight then other areas of science in what they publish or no
I've noticed there's a tendency to see anything to do with OBE, NDE and the like as being associated with something that is not of the material world and I eventually noticed that I don't have that view. Also that I'm not sure why it's considered immaterial. Personally I think these things suggest f
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Chris, 2018-02-28, 08:56 AM
Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's a blog post about a recent book by Kelly Bulkeley, entitled "Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition", about a historical case I'd never heard of - the apparently precognitive dreams of Lucrecia de León in 16th-century
Thought this was an interesting video that got a little mention on Skeptiko but I'd like to bring it up again. Apparently the NDE part starts around 11:20 into the video. It seems he's trying to toss NDEs up to evolution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5CkXf92VJs
On another thread, Steve001 posted a link to a YouTube video about homeopathy. Among other things, it mentioned the placebo effect, and explained it in these terms: "If people believe that something will help them
The idea that physical bodies evolved is a standard and basic idea that is supported by data collection about all living things. Given that the smallest unit of life is a single-cell organism, it is simple to view complex organisms as multi-cellular systems where the cells have developed specialize
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