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View article: Answering More of the Same: A Reply to Nahm
Answering More of the Same: A Reply to Nahm Open
Irony seems lost on Michael Nahm in his preceding commentary on this summer’s adversarial exchange on the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS) essay contest. For his commentary admonishes authors for misrepresenting others ev…
View article: How *Not* to Do Survival Research: Reflections on the Bigelow Institute Essay Competition
How *Not* to Do Survival Research: Reflections on the Bigelow Institute Essay Competition Open
The recent Bigelow Institute contest rewarding the “best” evidence for life after death epitomizes much of what’s wrong with the current state of survival research, its participants constituting a who’s who list of contemporary survival re…
View article: Final Reply: When Will Survival Researchers Move Past Defending the Indefensible?
Final Reply: When Will Survival Researchers Move Past Defending the Indefensible? Open
The failure of five psychical researchers to confront my critique of Bigelow Institute contest-winning essays with counterpoints or concessions responsive to its novel criticisms is disappointing. Their defensive and scattershot reply lost…
View article: Beyond the BICS Essays: Envisioning a More Rigorous Preregistered Survival Study
Beyond the BICS Essays: Envisioning a More Rigorous Preregistered Survival Study Open
Although the preceding exchange in this special subsection of the Journal (Augustine, 2022a, 2022b; Braude et al., 2022) has highlighted the differences between skeptics and proponents of discarnate personal survival, there is much more in…