Do you guys want interviews?

I also want one with Diane Powell, the savant topic is still interesting to me and it hasn't been touched in a while. She was hit hard last time over the methodological issues of her preliminary drills and it has been 3 years. One would expect overhauling, a few additions (or rather, the removal of posible venues for "cueing") and, of course, some results.

I also want one with Diane Powell, the savant topic is still interesting to me and it hasn't been touched in a while. She was hit hard last time over the methodological issues of her preliminary drills and it has been 3 years. One would expect overhauling, a few additions (or rather, the removal of posible venues for "cueing") and, of course, some results.

She appears not to have pursued psi research with autistic children. There seems to have been nothing on her blog about it for nearly three years:
http://dianehennacypowell.com/category/telepathy/
http://dianehennacypowell.com/category/h...c-savants/

She appears not to have pursued psi research with autistic children. There seems to have been nothing on her blog about it for nearly three years:
http://dianehennacypowell.com/category/telepathy/
http://dianehennacypowell.com/category/h...c-savants/

Max mentioned that she had new research a few months ago. She did bail from her blog, just like Radin did. Maybe it's a defense mechanism to block out the cynicism.

Max mentioned that she had new research a few months ago. She did bail from her blog, just like Radin did. Maybe it's a defense mechanism to block out the cynicism.

I don't think it was a question of cynicism, so much as valid criticism. I think everyone could see the scope for sensory cueing, and she acknowledged it herself. It would have been easy to eliminate, by blinding the therapist to the target. I can't understand why it wasn't done, if she believed it was a genuine effect. I think anyone here, if they believed they had found a genuine effect like that, would have moved heaven and earth to confirm it rigorously.

I did not mean Skeptiko in particular.

I don't think it was a question of cynicism, so much as valid criticism. I think everyone could see the scope for sensory cueing, and she acknowledged it herself. It would have been easy to eliminate, by blinding the therapist to the target. I can't understand why it wasn't done, if she believed it was a genuine effect. I think anyone here, if they believed they had found a genuine effect like that, would have moved heaven and earth to confirm it rigorously.

Perhaps it was out of compassion for those involved. It's one thing for  Diane Powell to expose herself to public scrutiny. Quite another to ask it of the possibly vulnerable individuals involved in the phenomena. Even placing more stringent conditions on the experimental set-up may have been a potential cause of distress. I don't know any of this for sure, it's just a thought.

Perhaps it was out of compassion for those involved. It's one thing for  Diane Powell to expose herself to public scrutiny. Quite another to ask it of the possibly vulnerable individuals involved in the phenomena. Even placing more stringent conditions on the experimental set-up may have been a potential cause of distress. I don't know any of this for sure, it's just a thought.

But we do know she was trying to raise nearly half a million dollars to make a documentary about these children, don't we?

Sorry, but I think this is the kind of thing that gives psychical research a bad name.

Well, using the Andrea Rossi M.O. would still not take away from the validity of the research, if it's there in the first place (which is a big "?", ATM).

I also recall Powell having done some new research.

If we can get her it'd be great.

edit: When is Radin's book about Psi & Magick coming out?

Our first interview, the one with Titus Rivas, is done and published - see here:

http://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-10...ml#pid1147

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