“1-2-3” READING LIST FOR SKEPTICS

One Journal

Journal of Parapsychology (Click here for link to Journal)

  •        Almost 70 years worth of  increasingly sophisticated, scientific ESP experiments are described in this journal, started in
    1937. Most experiments were conducted by the 200+ researchers belonging to the Parapsychological Association, an affiliate of
    the American Association for the Advancement of Science, our nation’s top science organization. Click here for the
    Parapsychological Association home page where you'll find a wealth of information dealing with the scientific study of ESP.

Two Papers

Bem, Daryl and Honorton, Charles. "Does Psi Exist?: Replicable Evidence for an Anomalous Process of
Information Transfer,” Psychological Bulletin, 1994, Vol. 115, pp. 4-18. (Click here for link to paper)

  •        A description of a famous series of  ESP experiments, conducted under extremely tight  rules set by ESP’s most famous
    critic, Dr. Ray Hyman,  which demonstrated replicable ESP under laboratory conditions. Two professional magicians also
    examined the test protocol to make sure no fraud or trickery could take place. Ten of  eleven studies produced positive results.  
    The overall success rate was 34 percent, as compared to an expected 25 percent if chance alone were at work.  The odds against
    this positive result being due just to chance? – 20,000-to-one. Site also includes exchanges of letters between Dr. Hyman and
    Cornell professor Dr. Bem regarding the tests. Continue to scroll down the page for a paper  discussing subsequent replication
    experiments.

Honorton, Charles and Ferrari, Diane. “Future Telling: A Meta-Analysis of  Forced Choice Precognition
Experiments, 1935-1987,” Journal of Parapsychology, 35, 1989,  pp. 281-308.

  •        Based on 309 experiments involving more than 50,000 people and 2 million sessions conducted between 1935-1987,
    parapsychologists have conclusively eliminated the “chance hypothesis” as an explanation for precognition. For a summary of the
    paper, click here and scroll down to Section 3 of the paper.

Three Books

Carter, Chris.  Parapsychology and the Skeptics. Pittsburg: SterlingHouse Books, 2007.  (Click here for link to book)

  • A concise, powerful rebuttal to lazy debunkers and arm-chair skeptics

Feather, Sally Rhine and Michael Schmicker. The Gift: ESP – The Extraordinary Experiences of Ordinary
People. New York. St Martin’s Press, 2005 (Click here to buy book)

  •  A look at ESP outside the laboratory – a representative selection of 200+ spontaneous ESP experiences taken from the Rhine
    Research Center’s database of over 14,000 reports. Not scientific proof, but evidence for ESP’s existence. Book described on this
    website.

Radin, Dean. The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena. San Francisco:
HarperEdge, 1997  (Click here for link to book)

  • The best single book describing the scientific evidence for ESP, written by one of the most respected parapsychology authorities
    in the country today.

... just a small sample of  available, credible books, journals, papers...

BONUS: Are you a fan of the "Amazing Randi"?
If you like to read and quote professional skeptics like James Randi or other vocal skeptics (click here for the most well-known) provided
the media by organizations like CSICOP  --you might want to check out the Skeptical Investigations website (click here) which
investigates people who call themselves skeptics. (How's that for fair play?!) Upon examination, many don't appear to be true, open-
minded skeptics at all, but rather dogmatists seeking to defend an ideology or world view. Read and decide for yourself.