Psi: How Open Minded are You Really?

[JuliaL]

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However I did go out and get a few samples of what others think of his "research."

http://skepdic.com/essays/radin.html

The evidence Radin presents, however, is little more than a hodgepodge of occult statistics. Unable to find a single person who can correctly guess a three-letter word or move a pencil an inch without trickery, the psi researchers have resorted to doing complex statistical analyses of data. In well-designed studies they assume that whenever they have data that, by some statistical formula, is not likely due to chance, they attribute the outcome to psi.

https://spiritualityisnoexcuse.wordpress...ean-radin/

The lecture is titled Science and the Taboo of Psi.

Despite what any reasonable person would expect of a lecture with a title like that, Radin in fact does not attempt to argue that there is a taboo against psi in science.

Instead he simply asserts there is a taboo, and then interprets everything as if that assertion were true. He also dismisses all criticism of psi research as being merely the result of the taboo.

Just to make it clear, Radin also does not present a shred of evidence for psi in this lecture either, (though he talks about the subject a lot).

More importantly, Radin’s documentation sucks. His refusal to properly reference his sources (name, title, journal, date) causes problems for his argument which only become clear when you check the sources yourself. When you do this, it becomes clear that Radin is being less than accurate and less than honest with the information he provides his audience.

Further reading in the above URL review yields comments that Radin does not cite his sources well enough to independently investigate them.

Most of the Google hits not obviously associated with this guy (e.g. coming from http://www.deanradin.com) were neutral(book review) to highly critical.

I don't think he's worth my time to listen to. If psi were real, it would be used in business.