Why Most Research Findings About Psi Are False: The Replicability Crisis, the Psi Paradox and the Myth of Sisyphus - Fro...

It seems that the results of nine experiments conducted by Cornell University psychologist Daryl Bem and reported in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, which supported the existence of precognition, persuaded very few scientists. Rather than dealing with the extraordinary findings of those experiments, the mainstream has generally preferred to question the procedures and statistical tools that many social psychologists use. So it comes down to this: "If psi does not exist, significant results for nearly a century have only been obtained by methodological errors, self-deception, fraud, and questionable research practices." On the other hand, "if psi does exist, it means that human consciousness can interact with its environment beyond the usual boundaries of space and time, which has fundamental consequences for the way research is conducted in psychology, including psi research." Along the same lines, Richard Wiseman comments on How Parapsychology Changed Psychology. "Academics often criticise parapsychology," he writes, but the story of a little-known parapsychology journal that was years ahead of its time, "is a good example of how the field is sometimes ahead of the game and can help to improve mainstream psychology." (PH)

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