"Science and the taboo of psi" with Dean Radin


Google Tech TalksJanuary, 16 2008ABSTRACT

Do telepathy, clairvoyance and other "psi" abilities exist? The majority of the general population believes that they do, and yet fewer than one percent of mainstream academic institutions have any faculty known for their interest in these frequently reported experiences. Why is a topicof enduring and widespread interest met with such resounding silence in academia? The answer is not due to a lack of scientific evidence, or even to a lack of scientific interest, but rather involves a taboo. I will discuss the nature of this taboo, some of the empirical evidence and critical responses, and speculate on the implications.

Speaker: Dean Radin
Dean Radin is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. He is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and four-time former President of the Parapsychological Association. He holds an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a masters degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has worked at AT&T Bell Labs and GTE Labs, mainly on human factors of advanced telecommunications products and services, and held appointments at Princeton University, Edinburgh University, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, SRI International, Interval Research Corporation, and Boundary Institute. At these facilities he was engaged in basic research on exceptional human capacities, principally psi phenomena.







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gJonii (December 5, 2008 at 12:17 pm)
"Science has many fields, you just listed 3"

Yeah. Alone the fact that no field of science anticipates that psi exist would be enough. But instead, we have 3 fields of science that are clearly against it?>>PSI could very well be a gateway to a new scientific field.>>Invisible elf jumping up and down behind your back could very well be a gateway to a new scientific field. We still don't go calling paraelfiology a scientific field.
PneumaLogic (December 5, 2008 at 4:28 am)
"Anything psi-related would be against physics, neurology and evolution."

Science has many fields, you just listed 3. Each field has been discovered through time. PSI could very well be a gateway to a new scientific field.

We just don't know yet, scientifically speaking.
PneumaLogic (December 5, 2008 at 4:25 am)
"It has been investigated. Nothing was found."

I agree nothing WAS found. But "Was" is past tense, leave the past in the past. Science is progressive and just because we could not verify or comprehend something scientifically in the past does not mean that it doesn't exist. Remember science is progressive.
gJonii (December 5, 2008 at 12:47 am)
Problem is that science holds certain kind of reputation as a trustworthy and really cool thing overall. Using that name for deception or just doing something that is not science under the guise of science is simply wrong.>>Rather than just ruling PSI out, we should investigate it scientifically>>It has been investigated. Nothing was found. Anything psi-related would be against physics, neurology and evolution. Nothing related has been observed in lab tests. There is simply nothing
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