Parapsychology: Science of the anomalous or search for the soul?
@article{Alcock1987ParapsychologySO, title={Parapsychology: Science of the anomalous or search for the soul?}, author={J. E. Alcock}, journal={Behavioral and Brain Sciences}, year={1987}, volume={10}, pages={553-565} }
Although there has been over a century of formal empirical inquiry, parapsychologists have clearly failed to produce a single reliable demonstration of “paranormal,” or “psi,” phenomena. Although many parapsychological research projects have been carried out under what have been described as well-controlled conditions, this does not by itself make a science, for unless and until it can be demonstrated that paranormal phenomena really exist, there is no subject matter around which a science can… CONTINUE READING
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