parapsychology

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So is it fair to say parapsychology is coming out of the dark as an academic subject?

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2023

The dubious field of parapsychology, for instance, owes its existence to the decades of pseudoscholarship churned out at Duke and Harvard University–and financed by wealthy private patrons.

From Scientific American • Aug. 25, 2023

In a first-person story for the Times, Mr. Toth called the pretext for his arrest “laughable,” saying a source he believed was a scientist had handed him a paper on parapsychology, not military secrets.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2022

At risk is the enormous, one-of-a-kind Eileen J. Garrett Library, a staggering archive of books, scholarly papers, photographs, letters and some 600 videos documenting the broad and complicated field of parapsychology in the 20th century.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2022

Boyle went on to carry out extensive research into the phenomenon of second sight, which one might describe as the beginnings of parapsychology.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton