Post by Dominic Clarke on Sept 11, 2012 5:37:54 GMT -5
Hello,
I would like to use this thread to collect peer-reviewed journal articles that show evidence for and against any aspect of the paranormal that is of interest.
If we collect the papers here, we can keep a running discussion going, but if anything begs for more analysis we can move it over to the reading group and discuss it in-depth.
What I'm interested in is attempting to establish a groundwork of scientific evidence, with the same rigor as any other piece of scientific research. Then we can look at exactly what phenomena we have this evidence for. And I would ask that the criticism applied to each paper be of the same standard as a reviewer for a scientific journal - good experimental methods, good statistical methods, no fudging.
While this may not be the whole story for many of you guys and girls (anti-scientism, anti-materialism etc.), i think it is important to have this stand seperately for proper study, because it is only through submission to scientific standards that anyone outside of this field is going to take the phenomena seriously.
I'm sure Jack can start us off.
Dom.
I would like to use this thread to collect peer-reviewed journal articles that show evidence for and against any aspect of the paranormal that is of interest.
If we collect the papers here, we can keep a running discussion going, but if anything begs for more analysis we can move it over to the reading group and discuss it in-depth.
What I'm interested in is attempting to establish a groundwork of scientific evidence, with the same rigor as any other piece of scientific research. Then we can look at exactly what phenomena we have this evidence for. And I would ask that the criticism applied to each paper be of the same standard as a reviewer for a scientific journal - good experimental methods, good statistical methods, no fudging.
While this may not be the whole story for many of you guys and girls (anti-scientism, anti-materialism etc.), i think it is important to have this stand seperately for proper study, because it is only through submission to scientific standards that anyone outside of this field is going to take the phenomena seriously.
I'm sure Jack can start us off.
Dom.
