Post by Tamrin on Sept 18, 2011 10:07:14 GMT 10
The Psychology of the Psychic
by David Marks and Dr Richard Kammann
[Excerpt - Review in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Linked Above]
by David Marks and Dr Richard Kammann
[Excerpt - Review in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Linked Above]
"The Psychology of the Psychic" is a skeptical analysis of claims of the paranormal. The book critiques a few notable studies within parapsychology from the period 1970-2000. The book contains a critical analysis of the remote viewing experiments carried out in the 1970s at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) by two physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff. These studies formed part of the highly publicized STARGATE studies funded by the Defense Intelligence Agency and CIA. Marks describes flaws in the experimental protocols of the original SRI that enabled the statistical significance of the results to become inflated. Marks reached the conclusion: "Remote viewing is nothing more than a self-fulfilling subjective delusion" (p. 92).
