Dean Radin then became Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California, USA, later becoming the president of the Parapsychological Association.
13 Facts About Dean Radin
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Dean Radin is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing.
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Dean Radin was elected president of the Parapsychological Association in 1988,1993,1998, and 2005, and has published a number of articles and papers supporting the existence of paranormal phenomena, as well as two books directed to a popular audience: The Conscious Universe and Entangled Minds.
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French recounts that the medium Florence Cook was caught in acts of trickery and two of the Fox sisters confessed to fraud, but that Dean Radin did not mention this fact.
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Dean Radin has claimed the results from parapsychological research are as consistent by the same standards as any other scientific discipline, but Ray Hyman has written that many parapsychologists disagree with this, openly admitting that the evidence for parapsychology is "inconsistent, irreproducible, and fails to meet acceptable scientific standards".
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Dean Radin has appealed to quantum mechanics as a mechanism, claiming that it can explain the non-locality and backward causality associated with psi phenomena, though such ideas are harshly criticized by many physicists who study quantum mechanics as being pseudoscientific.
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Dean Radin has written that not all people experience paranormal phenomena because they block such signals due to the process of latent inhibition.
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The review charged that Dean Radin ignored the known hoaxes in the field, made statistical errors and ignored plausible non-paranormal explanations for parapsychological data.
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Dean Radin replied to Good in a follow-up letter in the correspondence pages of Nature, saying that Good in his review had misinterpreted a reference to a probability value.
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In 2002, Victor J Stenger gave a criticism of The Conscious Universe that aligned with Good's arguments that Radin did not perform the file-drawer analysis correctly, made fundamental errors in his calculations, and ignored non-paranormal explanations for the data.
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The book was reviewed by the philosopher and skeptic Robert Todd Carroll in a thirteen-page chapter-by-chapter critique which noted how Dean Radin had not cited the skeptical literature on the subject of parapsychology.
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Dean Radin cited a test subject's response when asked to describe the future location of a distant agent:.
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Dean Radin wrote that the subject's response "successfully" described the actual randomly selected location of the distant agent: the Radio telescope at Kitt Peak.