Joe Nickell from TAM3: Pages from the Casebook of a Paranormal Investigator

Would Joe Nickell please stop self-identifying as a "paranormal investigator" ?! -- please?
Joe Nickell from TAM3: Pages from the Casebook of a Paranormal Investigator

Greg Taylor on Daryl Bem's Psi Research

Daily Grail's Greg Taylor's excellent comments on Daryl Bem's psi research, which is to be published soon in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The fact that a recognized scientific journal has reviewed, and accepted, such an article has many uber-skeptics frothing at the mouth in horror. Eugene, Oregon's very own pathological skeptic, Dr. Ray Hyman of the University of Oregon, just down the road from me and my alma mater, has made his views clear. Quoting from Taylor's piece, Hyman says:

“It’s craziness, pure craziness. I can’t believe a major journal is allowing this work in,” Ray Hyman, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University Oregon and longtime critic of ESP research, said. “I think it’s just an embarrassment for the entire field.”

Hyman has a thing about psi; he was a "co-evaluator" of the Stargate Project, and rejected the research of partner professor Jessica Utts about that project. Both came away from the study of the project with very different conclusions: Utts, that psi exists, Hyman, who rejected such ideas.

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Out of Context Science

Found on Boing Boing: Out of Context Science,
a fun thing. Takes quotes from scientific materials.What a great idea; reminds me of those delightful quotes from newspapers and other printed matter the New Yorker used to sprinkle about in their magazine. Now you're lucky to find just one. Examples from Out of Context Science:

"Dogs that were less interested in the ambiguous bowls were judged to be more pessimistic."

New genes are no longer just vinegar, they are now equally likely to be butter and bread. We were shocked.

It seems that really active black holes are rare but not anti-social.

As Boing Boing remarked, it's nice that Out of Context Science gives citations for the quotes.