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Re: James Randi & Daryl Bem

Miguel Roig
Thu, 07 Sep 2000 15:02:49 -0700

At 10:41 AM 9/7/00 -0500, you wrote:

>This seems to me to constitute what we would call a replicable 
>effect.  Yes, there are some (pretty complicated) alternative 
>explanations.  

Chuck, keep in mind that a more recent meta-analysis by other parapsychologists
resulted in a different conclusion:

Milton, J. & Wiseman, R. (1999).  Does psi exist?  Lack of replication of an
anomalous process of information transfer.  Psychological Bulletin, 125, 387-391.

>Ths brings me to my next question.  Would this 
>constitute a winner of the James Randi Challenge (See link below)?
>
><http://www.randi.org/research/challenge/index.html>http://www.randi.org/resea
rch/challenge/index.html

Interesting question!

Miguel





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