Author Michael Schmicker Offers Convincing Evidence of ESP, Telepathy, and Psi

June 5, 2009 - PRLog -- Among many mainstream scientists claims of parapsychological effects like ESP, telepathy, psychokinesis, and mental healing are met with ridicule.  Skeptics claim parapsychology researchers have unsuccessfully tried to produce scientific evidence of psi for 100 years. Enter Micheal Schmicker.  He's complied long list of publicly available evidence of psi phenomena, and claims the only barrier to its acceptance has been 100 years of ignorance and intellectual dishonesty on the part of science fundamentalists.

Join host Alex Tsakiris when he interviews Michael Schmicker, Author of, Best Evidence: An Investigative Reporter’s Three-Year Quest to Uncover the Best Scientific Evidence for ESP, Psychokinesis, Mental Healing, Ghosts and Poltergeists, Dowsing, Mediums, Near Death Experiences, Reincarnation, and Other Impossible Phenomena That Refuse to Disappear. During the 45-minute interview (http://www.skeptiko.com/71-michael-schmicker-best-evidence-of-psi/) Schmicker summarizes the findings of his research:

“…let´s go for the point of intellectual dishonesty, because besides 100 years of ignorance I think there is 100 years of intellectual dishonesty… three points I would make, first, it’s intellectually dishonest to  say that only what is proven in a laboratory is real. Second, I think it is intellectually dishonest to say these are extraordinary claims.  I don´t think a claim of a poltergeist is anymore extraordinary than a claim for meteors. Both of them should rest on evidence. And the third thing I think is intellectually dishonest is how skeptics use Occam’s razor… the concept that the simplest explanation should be considered first. I agree with Occam’s razor, but it cuts both ways.  If a million people report a ghost phenomena, and they are credible witnesses, and all the normal ways of evaluating evidence are employed, then Occam’s razor says ghosts exist. That’s called fair play”.

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Michael Schmicker is a veteran business journalist, member of the Society for Scientific Exploration, member of the Board of Advisors for the Rhine Research Center, and nationally-known writer on scientific anomalies. For more information on his book visit:
http://www.redroom.com/author/michael-l-schmicker

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