Prof. Chris French
Appearances
Science Vs
Telepathy: Is It For Real?
Over the last 50 years, there's been a huge amount of research on telepathy published in peer-reviewed journals, which has proved to be repeatable and seems to me irrefutable in that it's showing that telepathy really happens. The problem is that the critics simply aren't interested in the evidence because their belief system is that this is impossible.
Science Vs
Telepathy: Is It For Real?
I accept that there are some really interesting and challenging aspects ideas out there for skeptics. I mean, some of the evidence isn't easy to dismiss. And certainly when you get skeptics who say there is no evidence for the existence of telepathy or precognition and so on, that's just nonsense.
Science Vs
Telepathy: Is It For Real?
I am indeed, yeah. I don't get invited to parties at all because of my overwhelmingly negative personality.
Science Vs
Telepathy: Is It For Real?
It's based on the idea that if there is such a thing as telepathy, it may well be that it's a very faint signal in comparison to all the background noise.
Science Vs
Telepathy: Is It For Real?
they look like half ping pong balls one over each eye and you you obviously light could still get in there through the gaps so you use cotton wool just to to plug that up and then you tape over the eyes and then you have a red light bulb so if they open their eyes all they'll see is red so it's not that you've got no sensory input but you've just got a uniform sensory input
Science Vs
Telepathy: Is It For Real?
And basically, it's a very, very nice, comfortable, relaxing situation to be in. And people typically report that after a while, they relax and their head begins to fill with imagery, you know?
Science Vs
Telepathy: Is It For Real?
And the sender would try to concentrate on that target image and send the information to the receiver.
Science Vs
Telepathy: Is It For Real?
No, because I've had my fingers burnt with meta-analyses before. I mean, meta-analysis, I think, is a very useful tool. And I think we should take this latest meta-analysis seriously. But whether I'm going to say, yes, okay, I'm convinced now, I'm going to hold back a little bit because there have been so many twists and turns in this tale.
Science Vs
Telepathy: Is It For Real?
And I read that and thought, oh my God, wow, this really looks like very powerful evidence. So what are these analyses doing wrong?
Science Vs
Telepathy: Is It For Real?
It produced absolutely no effects whatsoever to support the existence of precognition.