Bob Bigelow on Essay Competition

@Typoz  What happened to your post? I'm interested.

I removed it as ill-conceived and not constructive.

@Stan Woolley yes, it was nothing.

I’m interested = I’m nosy ...

Amen.

I removed it as ill-conceived and not constructive.

@Stan Woolley yes, it was nothing.

If I deleted everything ill-conceived and not constructive, I would post literally nothing.

If I deleted everything ill-conceived and not constructive, I would post literally nothing.

Haha. Nice 

[Ninshub]

The only one of the winning essays that I have been able to find so far is the top winner’s, by Jeffrey Mishlove. This is at https://www.nonlocalmind.org/wp-content/...titute.pdf . 

Apologies if this has been posted on the forum since but all of the essays  - the top contenders, all of the winners, all of the honourable mentions - are on this page.

Van Lommel
Ruickbie
Beischel
Braude
Kastrup
Krohn
Long
Nahm
Rawlette
Rocha et al.
Rouleau
Rousseau
Tymn

Carter
Cook
Delorme, Radin et al.
Fenwick et al.
Kerr
Leininger
Mays
Meyer
Neppe
Parnia
Roe
Sommer
Taylor
S. Taylor
Weerasekera


Pretty rich repository of survival evidence summaries!

[Ninshub]

A run-down/review of the different essays by Mark Mahin.

[Laird]

A run-down/review of the different essays by Mark Mahin.

Yep, I already posted that link in post #16 in the other thread on this competition, Bigelow Institute essays on life after death in PDF.

Maybe the duplicate link warner needs to be active for thread replies and not just thread-starters.

[Ninshub]

Sorry about that Laird.

[Laird]

No worries, and no need to apologise - you weren't necessarily to have seen and remembered that other post.

It is now several months since Bigelow announced the winning awards. If someone else has already covered this subtopic please excuse the repetition. I thought it interesting to make a brief Google survey of the Internet looking for supposedly authoritative dismissals of the essays and Bigelow's effort as a whole from skeptic organizations or prominent materialist skeptics. 

I couldn't find much of anything, whether from leading atheist organizations or from skeptic organizations like the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), formerly known as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). One leading debunking journal is Skeptical Enquirer - there appears to be nothing showing they have even noticed Bigelow's project. And there is nothing for instance from the American Humanist Association or other atheist organizations.

One of the few dedicated skeptic websites I could find to attack Bigelow's contest was the minor one Patheos ("Roll to Disbelieve") at https://www.patheos.com/blogs/rolltodisb...of-belief/. Needless to say, there was nothing but a skeptic rant - no substantive attempt to actually debunk any of the massive amount of evidence recounted in the essays.

It seems that leading closed minded materialist skeptic organizations and individuals have chosen to ignore Bigelow perhaps as unimportant and are hoping he will just go away (standing pat with the accomplished feat of having converted Wiki to a skeptic debunking encyclopedia as far as the paranormal is concerned), or just maybe they are getting tired and weaker as cultural currents start to sweep them aside, or maybe they just can't mount any sort of credible attack given the voluminous evidence presented. I just don't know, but I would think that there would have been a more concerted skeptic response.

Do many of the competition participants attract a lot of negative comment? If they don’t I suspect it just may just go under the “skeptic” radar. 

I agree that even a cursory look reveals a great deal of research. Perhaps it’s too much for them to digest? Lol