Cardeña, Etzel. • 2014 Modern Era • overview
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Around 100 academics — including a Nobel Prize winner in physics — signed a collective statement saying: the scientific community should take psychic research seriously instead of dismissing it out of hand. Their argument? Psi research already happens at respected universities, supportive results keep appearing in peer-reviewed journals, and tightening experimental controls hasn't made those results disappear. They push back on the popular motto that 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,' calling it a conversation-stopper rather than a genuine scientific standard. This statement served as a rallying flag for open-minded evaluation — and paved the way for Cardena's detailed 2018 review.
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Cardeña, Etzel. (2014). A Call for an Open, Informed Study of All Aspects of Consciousness. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00017
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@article{cardena_2014_call_open_consciousness,
title = {A Call for an Open, Informed Study of All Aspects of Consciousness},
author = {Cardeña, Etzel.},
year = {2014},
journal = {Frontiers in Human Neuroscience},
doi = {10.3389/fnhum.2014.00017},
}