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"Science and the taboo of psi" with Dean Radin

Google Tech TalksJanuary, 16 2008ABSTRACTDo 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 topic of 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 RadinDean 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.

Channel: People & Blogs
Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm
Author: googletechtalks

Length: 34:57
Rating: 4.39
Views: 35940

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Video Comments

ORIONCUBE (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

The architect:)Eagle Eye, The Valkyries, and The Stairway to Enlightenment

TheThomaswastaken (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Name.

TheThomaswastaken (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Damn good post.

GodfatherNK (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

lol

myselfinmichigan (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."-Mark Twain Require an independent confirmation of the facts.Arguments from authority carry little weight (in science there are no "authorities"). Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it's yours. Every link in the chain of argument must work. Ask whether the hypothesis can, at least in principle, be falsified.-Excerpt from Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit.

MariaSharapovaIsLove (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

I was just watching the video and the Windows Update warning popped up more than 10 times throughout the whole thing. LOL! This guy must be pissed about it. "No! I do not want to restart my computer!". *clicks Restart later* *pop up appears again after a few minutes*

MariaSharapovaIsLove (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Wait, is his name Dean or is he a dean?

IdleGod (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Exactly! :) And when there is flaws in scientific papers, they cannot be relied on either. It is why I love science.

plasticfantastic777 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

07:40 "we can't rely on anicdotes because they're not controlled..."

plasticfantastic777 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

If you indiscriminately dismiss this information out of hand then doesn't that mean you should disavow scientific method and its purported findings entirely?