Citation

Palmer JO. J. Parapsychol. 2016; 80(1).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Parapsychology Press)

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Abstract

As regular JP readers are aware, Stokes is a frequent critic of psi research, but this is the first time I had seen him make a push for the experimenter fraud hypothesis. Indeed, the hypothesis has been out of fashion at least since the early 1980s. Starting in the 1960s, fraud by either gifted psi subjects or the experimenters who tested them was the major line of attack by critics of parapsychology. This was due almost entirely to the psychologist (and magician) C. E. M. Hansel, who in effect (more on these two words later) accused one subject and two experimenters of using "tricks" to falsify the data in three ESP card guessing experiments back in the 1930s and 1940s (Hansel, 1966; 1980)...

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