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Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On: Poltergeists, Geophys' and Expectancy
How a quirky parapsychology experiment in a Cambridge end terrace in the early 1960s nearly brought the house down.
Chris Gyford
Nov 23, 20243 min read
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The Return of The Invisible Ghost: Further Apparitional Observation & Top-Down Processing
How a quirky series of parapsychology experiments across Cambridge in the early 1960s came perilously close to profound insight...
Chris Gyford
Oct 14, 20243 min read
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Ain’t No Such Thing as The Inerrant Word of Science
How fundamentalist Biblical literalism leads to fundamental scientific illiteracy...
Chris Gyford
Oct 12, 20243 min read
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The Invisible Ghost: Apparitional Observation & Inattentional Blindness
How a quirky parapsychology experiment on the Cambridge Backs in the 1950s preempted a major psychological discovery some 4 decades later.
Chris Gyford
Oct 4, 20243 min read
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This Is a Woman!
Weighing in on Imane Khelif, operationalism and gender essentialism.
Chris Gyford
Aug 14, 20243 min read
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Brain Bucket of Belief: Michael Persinger & His God Helmet
How Prof. Michael Persinger came face-to-face with God through science, geomagnetism and a modified Ski-Doo helmet.
Chris Gyford
Oct 17, 20232 min read
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No Stone Unturned: The So-Called Stone Tape Theory
How TV ruined a perfectly speculative hypothesis on the aetiology of apparitional experiences.
Chris Gyford
Oct 10, 20232 min read
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The Pseudoscience of Ghosts
How seemingly pseudoscientific explanations distort our understanding of apparitional experiences.
Chris Gyford
Oct 3, 20232 min read
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Piaget Says You Have a Mind Like a Mollusc
How Piaget's theory of cognitive development helps explain why personal experiences are not to be relied upon when forming beliefs.
Chris Gyford
Apr 5, 20212 min read
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Why You Gotta Be So Mean?
How the cyclical nature of everything from sports performances to medical conditions results in regression to the mean.
Chris Gyford
Nov 5, 20202 min read
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Happy Birthday, Harold Davenport!
How the high probability of so-called coincidences occurring can be explained by the law of large numbers.
Chris Gyford
Nov 5, 20202 min read
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