Psi Multimedia Resources Thread

Here's another, entitled Does “Anomalous Healing” Need the Healer?, by William F. Bengston, the president of the SSE:

Bengston's claims are rather dramatic. Generally they seem to have been ignored rather than criticised.

Five years ago on Skeptiko, Johann opened a thread for discussion of Bengston's studies on mice, but his post attracted zero replies:
http://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/fo...udies.733/

Bengston's claims are rather dramatic. Generally they seem to have been ignored rather than criticised.

Five years ago on Skeptiko, Johann opened a thread for discussion of Bengston's studies on mice, but his post attracted zero replies:
http://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/fo...udies.733/

Interesting observation, regarding this topic, or Bengston in particular being neglected. That particular section of Skeptiko is now read-only and no replies are possible. If I recall, there had been some other thread or threads on his work on Skeptiko which did attract some discussion.

[Laird]

If I recall, there had been some other thread or threads on his work on Skeptiko which did attract some discussion.

There was a Skeptiko episode with Bill Bengston, #185 (as best I recall I haven't listened to it yet).

Checking the Index under Spiritual and psychic healing/therapy modalities, I find not just the official show thread for episode #185, but also a later unofficial follow-up thread, plus a "[Resources]" thread started by K9!:

• 185. DR. WILLIAM BENGSTON’S HANDS ON HEALING RESEARCH IGNORED BY CANCER INDUSTRY (official)
  
• 185. Dr. William Bengston ignored by cancer industry (unofficial but with some good critical discussion)
  
• Bill Bengston [Resources] (a couple of videos but no discussion)
  

There was a Skeptiko episode with Bill Bengston, #185 (as best I recall I haven't listened to it yet).

Checking the Index under Spiritual and psychic healing/therapy modalities, I find not just the official show thread for episode #185, but also a later unofficial follow-up thread, plus a "[Resources]" thread started by K9!:

• 185. DR. WILLIAM BENGSTON’S HANDS ON HEALING RESEARCH IGNORED BY CANCER INDUSTRY (official)
  
• 185. Dr. William Bengston ignored by cancer industry (unofficial but with some good critical discussion)
  
• Bill Bengston [Resources] (a couple of videos but no discussion)
  

Thanks for this. I think probably the more substantive discussion of Bengston's experiments, which led to Johann's post, is in (or around) pages 41-49 of this thread:
http://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/ar...t-all.577/

But I thought it was striking that after Johann went to the trouble of setting up a dedicated thread and writing an introduction to it - including a note that Bengston's results had been replicated, contrary to his previous impression - there was no more discussion at all.

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - Michael Prescott picked up a copy of James Randi's "An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural" (1995) at a second-hand bookshop, in the thought that he could get a blog post out of it, and did so:
https://michaelprescott.typepad.com/mich...azing.html

The Society for Scientific Exploration has just uploaded a number of videos of presentations at past conferences. Several are on the theme of micro-psychokinesis. Generally they have quite detailed written descriptions, providing a useful way of seeing what they're about without spending a lot of time watching the videos.

They include:

Reliability of RNG Outputs during Movie-Viewing Field Experiments | Takeshi Shimizu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNhiu0ztdJI

Group and Mass Consciousness at Work | Roger Nelson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhKLVBGTnHs

New Perspectives on the PseudoREG: Feasibility and Implications | Brennan Kersgaard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au6RBsGye_Q

A Multi-Frequency Replication of the MegaREG Experiments | Keith Alexander
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LITUS9g4KA

Examining Experimenter Effects in Investigations of Psychokinesis | Mark Boccuzzi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpGXD0A4l7w

And yet more:

Physiological Correlates of Psi Phenomena Pilot Study of EEG and PK | W.J. Ross Dunseath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCNbl7U02Fk

REG Project and the Web Model of Mind | Herb Mertz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o5q1hcp3Xg

Healing, Biophotons, and PK at the Rhine Research Center | John G. Kruth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzZqf2N0PyI

New Mind-Matter Interaction Experiments Involving Light | Dean Radin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AUmlUqwbb8

Quantum Mechanics Lectures Released at TheSSEChannel

The Society for Scientific Exploration continues the gradual release of its catalog of 2011-2017 SSE conference videos with a playlist of twelve YouTube videos on the topic of Quantum Mechanics.

See talks by Sky Nelson, Glen Rein, Charles Lear and others showcasing a variety of approaches to studying this topic...

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - here's a podcast I hadn't seen before:
https://www.weirdstudies.com/
Professor Phil Ford and writer/filmmaker J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality."

It includes some episodes on parapsychology - the latest is entitled "Doomed to Enchantment: The Psychical Research of William James."

The Society for Scientific Exploration has posted 12 videos of past presentations at its meetings, on the theme of quantum mechanics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjyMw7fZ...kwczW7d0ps