Nobel Laureates Invited to Parapsychology Conference
Nobel laureates have reportedly been invited to a conference on parapsychology to be held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. The event, “A Meeting of Minds,” is to take place on July...
View ArticleDean Radin’s Statistics: Entangled Minds, page 120
Dean Radin discusses a meta-analysis of 88 ganzfeld experiments in his book Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality (Paraview, 2006). Figure 6-6 on page 120 has a graph of the...
View ArticleZetetic Scholar Issue Nos. 1-5 Now Online
PDF files of Zetetic Scholar issue numbers 1-5 are now available online at:http://tricksterbook.com/truzzi/ZeteticScholars.htmlBackgroundIn 1976 the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims...
View ArticleDean Radin’s Statistics: The “Significant” Correlation Matrix (PA 1993)
In 1993 Dean Radin served as president of the Parapsychological Association (PA), the professional association of parapsychologists. By that time he had been working in the field for over a decade. He...
View ArticleA Salary in Parapsychology: Patrice Keane (ASPR)
The 2005 federal tax return of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) was signed by its president, Nancy Sondow, on November 2, 2006. Page 5 of the return lists the compensation for...
View ArticleResponse to Radin: The “Significant” Correlation Matrix (PA 1993)
Dean Radin has responded to my comments regarding his correlation matrix (this blog August 5, 2007), in his blog entry titled: “Trickster, or failure of imagination?” (August 14, 2007).Radin took me to...
View ArticleDouglas M. Stokes’ Consciousness and the Physical World now available online
Douglas Stokes’ book Consciousness and the Physical World is now available as multiple Microsoft Word doc files at--http://noosphere.princeton.edu/papers/docs/stokes/A paragraph from his Introduction...
View ArticleCSICOP to CSI: The Stigma of the Paranormal
A year and a month ago, on September 23, 2006, the Executive Council of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) met and decided to change the name of the...
View ArticleMarilyn Schlitz and Ian Stevenson: Embarrassed by Parapsychology
Marilyn Schlitz is the consummate insider in parapsychology. She conducted her first formal remote-viewing experiment in 1979 at the University of California at Irvine while she was an undergraduate....
View ArticleSalaries at the Parapsychology Foundation
The tax return of the Parapsychology Foundation (PF) for 2005 (signed November 9, 2006) lists compensation paid to its officers. President Eileen Coly received $37,000 and Executive Director Lisette...
View ArticlePaul Stevens and the European Journal of Parapsychology
The European Journal of Parapsychology (EJP) has been well respected within parapsychology for decades. For instance, Radin, May, and Thompson (1985, p. 223) judged its quality to be well above that of...
View ArticleBack Issues of Archaeus Are Now Online
Click here for back issues of ArchaeusThe Archaeus Project: OverviewThe Archaeus Project was one of the groups active in the 1980s and early 1990s. It was founded in 1982 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul...
View ArticleZetetic Scholar: Numbers 6-8 Now Online
Zetetic Scholar numbers 6-8 (1980-1981) have just been put online in PDF format. Earlier issues were uploaded last year.Click here to go to issues of Zetetic ScholarZetetic Scholar (ZS) was edited by...
View ArticleX-Conference 2008: Scott Jones & John Alexander, speakers
X-Conference 2008 is to be devoted to uncovering the truth about government activity with UFOs. It is scheduled for April 18-20 in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Two of the speakers merit special attention:...
View ArticleArticles on Magicians and the Paranormal Now Online
Now available on my website is the article “Magicians on the Paranormal: An Essay with a Review of Three Books,” which appeared in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research (JASPR) in...
View ArticleThe Muhlenberg College 2009 Conference on Magic: A Review
Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, held The Theory and Art of Magic conference during March 19-21, 2009. It was part of a larger academic program directed by Lawrence Hass, a professor of...
View ArticlePsychophysical Research Laboratories’ PsiLab // Manual Now Online
During the 1980s, Psychophysical Research Laboratories (PRL) developed a package called PsiLab // to test psychic functioning using the Apple II series of computers.The package included an electronic...
View ArticleMartin Gardner and the Paranormal: An Appreciation and Critique
Martin Gardner died on May 22, 2010. There will be many articles and tributes to him in the coming weeks and months, but probably few will be from proponents of the paranormal. Gardner generally was...
View ArticleJames Moseley as Trickster
This blog post has three parts: an Introduction, the text of my formally published tribute “James W. Moseley as Trickster,” and Links to web pages with comments on MoseleyIntroduction Loved by...
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