ABC News piece on the Rhine Center
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Here's another recent mainstream-ish article about visiting the Rhine:
Bending the spoon, and other secrets of ESP Can psychics and rationalists get along? I went to a parapsychology center to find out. By Glenn McDonald ExperienceMag July 27, 2019 Quote:The evening ends with a brief presentation on spoon bending, the notorious psychic scam popularized by Uri Geller and other show business professionals. As a pop-culture punch line, spoon bending is too well known to be considered a legitimate paranormal phenomenon. It would seem to present a dilemma for the Rhine team — who takes this stuff seriously?
The first one was reasonably balanced, and the embedded tutorial video on Zener cards was excellent; the second was (sometimes not-so) subtly biased. That said, it's good to at least see coverage of this stuff.
(2019-08-10, 04:34 AM)Laird Wrote: The first one was reasonably balanced, and the embedded tutorial video on Zener cards was excellent; the second was (sometimes not-so) subtly biased. That said, it's good to at least see coverage of this stuff. Yes - I thought the second one was pretty bad, considering the author was aware that the occasion was essentially "fun and games" based on the early days of parapsychology. |
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