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Anomalous Cognition: An Umbrella Review of the Meta-Analytic Evidence

open access: yesJournal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, 2021
Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the results of all meta-analyses on anomalous cognition conducted between 1989 and 2021 in order to find moderators associated with greater effect sizes.
Patrizio Tressoldi, Lance Storm
doaj   +1 more source

How Far Can Ki‐Energy Reach?—A Hypothetical Mechanism for the Generation and Transmission of Ki‐Energy

open access: yesEvidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 6, Issue 3, Page 379-391, 2009., 2009
‘Ki‐energy’, which can be enhanced through the practice of Nishino Breathing Method, was reported to have beneficial health effects. Although Ki‐energy can play an important role in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), as yet it is unknown how Ki‐energy is generated, transmitted through air and received by another individual.
S. Tsuyoshi Ohnishi, Tomoko Ohnishi
wiley   +1 more source

From creationism to economics: How far should analyses of pseudoscience extend?

open access: yesMètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review, 2018
Both the scientific and philosophical problems with classic pseudosciences such as astrology and creationism are well known, leading to institutions that are not structured to promote cognitive advancement.
Taner Edis
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Journeys in the Country of the Blind: Entanglement Theory and the Effects of Blinding on Trials of Homeopathy and Homeopathic Provings

open access: yesEvidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 4, Issue 1, Page 7-16, 2007., 2007
The idea of quantum entanglement is borrowed from physics and developed into an algebraic argument to explain how double‐blinding randomized controlled trials could lead to failure to provide unequivocal evidence for the efficacy of homeopathy, and inability to distinguish proving and placebo groups in homeopathic pathogenic trials. By analogy with the
Lionel R. Milgrom
wiley   +1 more source

Unconventional research in USSR and Russia: short overview

open access: yes, 2013
This work briefly surveys unconventional research in Russia from the end of the 19th until the beginning of the 21th centuries in areas related to generation and detection of a 'high-penetrating' emission of non-biological origin.
Kernbach, Serge
core   +1 more source

Quality of Life Theory II. Quality of Life as the Realization of Life Potential: A Biological Theory of Human Being

open access: yesThe Scientific World Journal, Volume 3, Issue 1, Page 1041-1049, 2003., 2003
This review presents one of the eight theories of the quality of life (QOL) used for making the SEQOL (self‐evaluation of quality of life) questionnaire or the quality of life as realizing life potential. This theory is strongly inspired by Maslow and the review furthermore serves as an example on how to fulfill the demand for an overall theory of life
Soren Ventegodt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of 'Education in Parapsychology: Student and Instructor Perspectives' by Harvey Irwin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Book review of Education in Parapsychology: Student and Instructor Perspectives by Harvey Irwin. Foreword by Nancy Zingrone. Gladesville, NSW, Australia: AIPR Mongraphs, 2013. Pp xv + 106. (paperback).
Roe, Chris A
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Reasoning, Science, and the Ghost Hunt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper details how ghost hunting, as a set of learning activities, can be used to enhance critical thinking and philosophy of science classes. We describe in some detail our own work with ghost hunting, and reflect on both intended and unintended ...
Hansel, Timothy, Koolage, W. John
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Telepathy, Other Minds, and Category Errors

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 1088-1099, September 2025.
Abstract In this paper, I explore several issues surrounding what is called “telepathy” in the context of the problem of other minds. I begin with a quick review of the conditions in which this notion arose and the difficulties to which it gave rise upon its introduction.
Sébastien Motta
wiley   +1 more source

The Hands of Albert Einstein: Einstein’s Involvement with Hand Readers and a Dutch Psychic

open access: yesCorrespondences, 2021
When the handprints of Albert Einstein sold in 2013 at Sotheby’s for £55,000, no one queried how Einstein might have come to allow the chiromancer Marianne Raschig to read his hands.
Alexandra Nagel
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