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| RE: Reber and Alcock respond to Cardeña's paper in the American Psychologist | 2019-08-16, 08:08 AM | 4 |
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| Reber and Alcock respond to Cardeña's paper in the American Psychologist |
Extended Consciousness Phenomena
Parapsychological Research into Psi Phenomena (ESP, PK, Remote Viewing, etc.)
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| Chris Wrote: (2019-07-02, 07:41 AM) -- Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - a year on from the publication of Etzel Cardeña's paper, "The experimental evidence for parapsychological phenomena: A review," here's the abstract of a forthcoming response in the same journal by Arthur S. Reber and James E. Alcock: Searching for the impossible: Parapsychology’s elusive quest. Recently, American Psychologist published a review of the evidence for parapsychology that supported the general claims of psi (the umbrella term often used for anomalous or paranormal phenomena). We present an opposing perspective and a broad-based critique of the entire parapsychology enterprise. Our position is straightforward. Claims made by parapsychologists cannot be true. The effects reported can have no ontological status; the data have no existential value. We examine a variety of reasons for this conclusion based on well-understood scientific principles. In the classic English adynaton, “pigs cannot fly.” Hence, data that suggest that they can are necessarily flawed and result from weak methodology or improper data analyses or are Type I errors. So it must be with psi effects. What we find particularly intriguing is that, despite the existential impossibility of psi phenomena and the nearly 150 years of efforts during which there has been, literally, no progress, there are still scientists who continue to embrace the pursuit. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-31453-001 -- In case anyone would like to actually read the paper before dismissing it, it can be downloaded from http://jt512.dyndns.org/documents/Searching_for_the_impossible_.pdf (http://jt512.dyndns.org/documents/Searching_for_the_impossible_.pdf) | ||
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