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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot  Oh, apologies. I had thought you might be interested in some genuine scientific thinking of a logical kind, by a rather eminent scientist. My error. |
You mean Robert Jahn. Well, it depends what you're inclined to believe... On the page you refered us to, we find "A number of academics have called the PEAR data into question stating that the PEAR methodologies were flawed and questioning their interpretation of the collected data"
Following those links, we find, among other things: “It’s been an embarrassment to science, and I think an embarrassment for Princeton,” said Robert L. Park, a
University of Maryland physicist who is the author of “Voodoo Science: The Road From Foolishness to Fraud.” “Science has a substantial amount of credibility, but this is the kind of thing that squanders it.” (see
A Princeton Lab on ESP Plans to Close Its Doors - New York Times )
Another site, the sceptics' dictionary, discusses the science behind the alleged micro-psychokinesis, and certainly persuades me that the experiments failed to show any taking place. (
The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) ) There are useful pages here about how we hypnotise ourselves into believing such things.
The author comments, "The PEAR lab shut down in February 2007 to a yawning scientific community."
It's a pity we got to discussing failed psychic experiments in this thread, as it's obviously going to influence the tossers and reduce the number of heads we get. 