…defending his account and noting his competence as a licentiate member of the Institute of Incorporated Photographers.11Edmunds (1968), 366-69. See also Rogo’s response: Rogo (1969), 28-31. Richard Sheargold, reviewing the booklet in the International Journal of Parapsychology, similarly expressed disappointment at what he saw as its entirely negative slant.12Sheargold (1966),…
…was then discussed in the Zetetic Scholar (nos 5 and 6). John Palmer reviewed the research with Delmore in an overview of parapsychological research.9Palmer (1986). Later, GP Hansen wrote a critical overview,10Hansen (1992). which was followed by responses from Kelly and others. Richard Wiseman tested whether Delmore could have used…
…psychic detection by Richard Wiseman, Donald West and Roy Stemman.10Wiseman, West & Stemman (1996). Two professional psychics and Robinson, together with a control group of three students, were each given three objects and asked to match each one to the corresponding description of crimes to which they were related. Robinson…
…he was then director, and lecturer in the anthropology department. She accepted and relocated from British Columbia to Charlottesville, Virginia, staying for six years. Mills undertook numerous reincarnation projects during her six years working with Stevenson. She co-edited (with Richard Slobodin, the most prominent anthropologist sharing her specialty) an anthology…
…into question the fundamentals of the ethnographic method of participant observation, and in particular the extent to which an ethnographer engaged in such practices can maintain a sense of objective detachment from their research subjects. Writing in 1978, Richard de Mille, who had been one of Castaneda’s chief critics, emphasized…
…Philosophy of Science 48, 75-84. Braude, A. (2001). Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Bloomington, Indiana, USA: Indiana University Press. Burlet, P. (1863). Du Spiritisme Considéré comme cause d’Aliénation Mentale. Lyon: Imprimerie de Richard. Carpenter, W.B. (1877). Mesmerism and Spiritualism, &c. Historically & Scientifically Considered. London: Longmans…
…university. As co-executor of the will, Beloff was sufficiently well-regarded within the University of Edinburgh for its board to accept the funding and appoint him to the chair’s selection team. During his time at Edinburgh he supervised Richard Broughton and Adrian Parker, both of whom became prominent experimenters in the…
…be reached by the upper-class intellectuals who dominated the field in Britain. 28Morris (2006), 213. There is no doubt Price was an ambitious and sometimes abrasive character who was liked and disliked in equal measure. Author Richard Morris sums up Price as ‘a supreme bluffer, a hedonistic con man, a…
…observed between safeguards used and study outcomes, suggesting methodological quality, considered by sceptical critics to be the source of positive results, in fact had limited influence – a feature that any theory of psi would need to account for. SORRAT Morris joined with psychologist and psi sceptic Richard Wiseman to…
