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Episode 54: Halloween special on psychic mediums
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WoooOOOOOoooOOOOOoooo, it’s that time of year again! It’s Halloween, so it’s time for The Studies Show hosts to face their fears, and read the research from one of the weirdest areas of science, parapsychology.
This time it’s all about psychic mediums. What does it mean to test whether someone can talk to the dead? Are we any better at doing it now than we were 100 years ago at the height of “spiritualism”? And what do the most recent results tell us about the existence of the afterlife?
Happy Halloween! 🎃
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Show notes
Alfred Russel Wallace’s “Defence of Modern Spiritualism”
Article on Darwin’s views on spiritualism
Peter Lamont’s book on Daniel Dunglas Home
Sarcastic sceptical article on William Crookes’s botched investigation of Home
Video of James Randi debunking the medium Peter Popoff
Ray Hyman’s classic paper on cold reading
New Italian mediumship paper from 2022
2023 review on “Is Biological Death Final?” with discussion of the Drake Equation for parapsychology
Credits
The Studies Show is produced by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada Productions.
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