Parapsychological Research: a Tutorial Review and Critical Appraisal Ray Hyman 21 Aug 1985

Beginning in the 1850s, tome eminent scientists such as Robert Here, Allred Hostel Wallace, and Sir William Crookes investigated the claims of spiritualist mediums and believed that;they had demonstrated scientifically the existence of psychic phenomena. Critics, without examining the evidence, dismissed the claims out of hand and charged the offending scientists with gross incomr. petence or with fraud. Encouraged by the work of these early psychical researchers, a group of scholars founded the Society for Psychical Research in London In 1882. In spite of this beginning, psychical research remained an amateur and uncoordinated set of activities until the publication of Rhine's Extra-Sensory…

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