Cardeña, Etzel. • 2014 Modern Era • overview
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About 100 academics — including Nobel laureate Brian Josephson and well-known psychologists like Phil Zimbardo — co-signed this bold open letter arguing that psi research (studying phenomena like telepathy and precognition) deserves serious investigation. Their case: this research happens at accredited universities, tighter experimental controls haven't made the evidence disappear, publication bias doesn't explain the results, effect sizes match mainstream psychology, and modern physics doesn't rule psi out. They also push back on "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence," calling it an unfairly raised bar.
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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_handbook,
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},
}