As RViewer88 pointed out, such studies greatly exaggerate the unreliability of memory and in themselves exhibit great unreliability. The replication crisis in psychology research is an indication of big problems in this research area.
But anyway I think that this is completely irrelevant to the validity of much of the empirical evidence for paranormal phenomena. For instance, there are the birthmark/birth defect cases where the present existence of certain birthmarks or birth defects in the now mostly grown-up child is a physical fact uncovered by the investigators, as is the existence of the newspaper accounts and medical records that indicate where and how the previous personality in the past life met his or her sudden traumatic death, closely correlating with the present observed birthmarks or birth defects. Memory issues only partially enter into this kind of investigation.
Then there are the many powerfully evidential mediumistic communications investigated in the past, such as with Leonora Piper, where the in-trance utterances of the medium were recorded in writing at the time and later compared to known facts concerning the apparent deceased communicator. And other related experiments such as the "book tests".
Other empirical evidence to which these concerns are irrelevant are the many replicated demonstrations of psychokinesis and/or precognition documented by parapsychologists such as Dean Radin.
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But anyway I think that this is completely irrelevant to the validity of much of the empirical evidence for paranormal phenomena. For instance, there are the birthmark/birth defect cases where the present existence of certain birthmarks or birth defects in the now mostly grown-up child is a physical fact uncovered by the investigators, as is the existence of the newspaper accounts and medical records that indicate where and how the previous personality in the past life met his or her sudden traumatic death, closely correlating with the present observed birthmarks or birth defects. Memory issues only partially enter into this kind of investigation.
Then there are the many powerfully evidential mediumistic communications investigated in the past, such as with Leonora Piper, where the in-trance utterances of the medium were recorded in writing at the time and later compared to known facts concerning the apparent deceased communicator. And other related experiments such as the "book tests".
Other empirical evidence to which these concerns are irrelevant are the many replicated demonstrations of psychokinesis and/or precognition documented by parapsychologists such as Dean Radin.
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