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Skeptiko Host, Alex Tsakiris, Challenges Skeptics to Seek a Path of Personal Discovery Regarding Psychic Medium Research
Science philanthropist
Alex Tsakiris looks back at over thirty episodes of Skeptiko and examines what
he’s learned from his interviews with skeptics: Michael Shermer, Steven
Novella, James Alcock and James Randi. Tsakiris
outlines the three biggest failings of the skeptical community and how their
inability to successfully handle new research into human consciousness has
limited scientific progress.
“…I started this journey expecting genuine debate, a battle of ideas, a war over the evidence, but that’s not what I found. I found a lot of frustrated researchers who were facing a well-organized, aggressive skeptical community that’s managed to change the rules of the game when if come to how certain kinds of controversial science research is done.”
Tsakiris also offered a
challenge to skeptics who are doubtful of psychic medium research, like the
work being done by Dr. Gary Schwartz at the
Alex Tsakiris is part of a
group of researchers at OpenSourceScience.net interested in replicating the
“dogs that know” research of Dr.
The interview is available
for immediate free download at: www.skeptiko.com/index.php?id=42.
About Skeptiko
Skeptiko is the first
scientifically oriented Podcast exploring new research in controversial areas
of science such as telepathy, psi, parapsychology, near-death-experience,
reincarnation, and after-life encounters. Each episode features open,
honest debate on new scientific discoveries. The show includes interviews
with top research scientists and their critics.
About OpenSourceScience
OpenSourceScience is the first scientifically oriented website to bring the power of open source methods to the skeptical examination of controversial areas of science such as telepathy, psi, parapsychology, near-death experiences, reincarnation, and after-life encounters.
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