Psychic mediums tested under tightest laboratory conditions. Proven accurate. What will debunkers say now? |287|




Skeptiko – Science at the Tipping Point show

Summary: <br><br> Dr. Julie Beischel’s newly published research on assisted after-death communication sets a new standard of proof, but don’t expect science to change its stance on psychic mediums.<br> <a href="http://skeptiko.com/wp-content/uploads/julie-beischel-skeptiko.jpg"></a><br><br> Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/16210667@N02/16258050524/in/photolist-qLEKZW-ei7eHA-5mE1cw-6JBpkx-62jk1w-7KYWAP-6Axaet-54AEFq-bDLkeH-5ALSUh-5WYnLn-Ady-3p1eFY-eeH6M3-7Kbofe-97A867-6wFqJD-a5ZBCF-ts5MQ-7CyzQ-99X5Jt-ts7qv-ts6ny-rR1QKd-ts95P-ts8dT-ts76F-ts7MG-ts6HF-p6udmy-p6tSDg-p6tSFR-6wKAMC-ts5s2-ts8uJ-95Lcj3-6LYgKH-99saCa-22BWH-6RFuPh-97QYRi-7GP7LM-93SMLg-93MkBo-ara7AE-gg2Pve-ryDcnc-3d38qV-foKRk2-7K1cV4">Craig Sunter</a><br> Before becoming the preeminent researcher of medium communication, or as she likes to call it, “assisted after-death communication”, Dr. Julie Beischel was a newly-minted PhD in pharmacology and toxicology who was trying to come to grips with the loss of her mother. Grief had led Dr. Beischel to the door of Dr. Gary Schwartz whose controversial research into medium communication had drawn national attention. After several years of collaboration during which Dr. Beischel designed and implemented experiments which have become widely recognized as setting the gold standard in such research, Julie left the University of Arizona to found the <a href="http://www.windbridge.org/" target="_blank">Windbridge Institute</a>. Her research into medium communication and its effect on the bereaved continues to shed light on a phenomena that flies in the face of what science is telling us about life and death, and has the potential to redefine who we are.<br> Join Alex Tsakiris for an interview with Dr. Julie Beischel:<br> Alex Tsakiris: You’re researching psychic mediums? Is this some kind of joke? Research and science doesn’t go with the term medium communication does it?<br> Dr. Beischel: Science is just a tool. It’s just one way we learn how the universe works so it can be applied to anything. And there were a lot of people with strong opinions about what the capacity of mediums is. Can they report accurate and specific information? So I took the scientific method and I applied it to mediumship. Again, it’s just a tool you can apply to anything and so yes, it does go together because it’s something we don’t fully understand yet. So yes, [mediumship] is the perfect thing for science to tackle because we don’t understand it.<br> ——————————<br> Dr. Beischel: What we’ve found in all three of those ways that we look at scoring, we’ve achieved statistically significant positive results in a study done in 2007, and a replication study that we just published earlier in 2015. So the original study was 16 readings and <a href="http://www.explorejournal.com/article/S1550-8307%2815%2900006-3/abstract%20http://www.windbridge.org/publications/" target="_blank">this most recent study</a> is 58. So that’s a total of 74 readings in which under these more than double-blind conditions mediums could report accurate and specific information about the deceased when no sensory information could be plausible for where they got their information…<br> <a href="http://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/psychic-medium-tested-under-tightest-labratory-conditions-proven-accurate-what-will-debunkers-say.2541/#post-77381" target="_blank">Click here for forum discussion</a><br> <a href="http://www.windbridge.org/the-final-transition-conference-september-11-13-2015-tucson-az/" target="_blank">Click here for Final Transition Conference</a><br> <a href="http://drjuliebeischel.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Click here for Dr. Beischel’s Website</a><br> Read Excerpts:<br> Dr. Beischel: George Clinton; George Hamilton; George Carlin; George Strait; George Bush–either one; George Noory; George Foreman; George Washington…all you have is th...