Author: Chris French
Chris French is professor of psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London. His latest book is Anomalistic Psychology: Exploring Paranormal Beliefs & Experience.
The Science of Weird Shit | Chris French
If the wider scientific community is right to be skeptical about paranormal claims, why do so many people believe in the paranormal—including a sizable number who claim to have had direct personal experience of paranormal phenomena? Join us on Thursday, May 2, at 7:00 p.m. ET for a free Skeptical Inquirer Presents livestream with Chris …
From Tiny Acorns…
Back in the early 1980s, I believed in quite a number of paranormal claims. In my defense, back then skeptical critiques of parapsychology were even rarer than they are now, and all the books I used in preparing the lecture were uncritically pro-paranormal.
This article is available for free to all.The John Maddox Prize Nomination for Elizabeth Loftus
Here are extended excerpts from Goldsmiths College (University of London) psychology professor Chris French’s letter nominating Elizabeth Loftus for the 2016 John Maddox Prize (see News and Comment, p. 7): I would like to nominate Professor Elizabeth Loftus for the John Maddox Prize. She is an outstanding candidate with respect to all of the listed …
Truth, Trouble, and Research Exposing Alt Med
A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble by Edzard Ernst
This article is available for free to all.‘None of This Is True’: Do Disclaimers about the Paranormal Really Work?
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