Why Wikipedia and Skeptics Dismiss Parapsychology as Pseudoscience with Craig Weiler, Science Editor Episode 41

Wikipedia deems everything in parapsychology as "woo" and banned Ted Talks? Ever wonder why, if an afterlife, parapsychological research, mediumship and more were real, reliable sites such as Wikipedia, consistently say they are not. Craig Weiler, Science Editor, Paranormal Daily News; Parapsychology Journalist delves into exactly that question.

Craig Weiler is a California Bay Area based author and he is the science editor for Paranormal Daily News. He covers controversies in parapsychology, such as a Wikipedia controversy, the TED controversy of 2013 and reported on 10 years of undiscovered research by Russell Gruber Mirror Worlds Research.  He is currently working on the first issue of Parawize, a new magazine devoted to parapsychology and other edge sciences. 

He is an associate member of the Parapsychological Association, author of Psi Wars: TED, Wikipedia and the battle for the Internet. He pays the bills with his small construction business on the peninsula in northern California, where he lives with his wife and just enough cats.

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In This Episode:

- Why does Wikipedia always deny parapsychology

- Who has taken over Wikipedia

- What happens when authoritarian-minded people take over groups

- What is scientism 

- Why do skeptics dismiss strong evidence

- Aren’t skeptics supposed to be unbiased 

- If the evidence of psychic abilities and afterlife was so strong, wouldn't that convince skeptics

- What happened with Dr. Rupert Sheldrake's banned TED Talk

- What is the Ganzfeld experiment and how was it such amazing evidence of an afterlife

- What studies has Dr. Rupert Sheldrake done on animals and psychic abilities

- The universe is made up of consciousness

- An amazing remote viewing experiment showed people can predict the future

- What does Craig Weiler think of The Amazing Randi's million dollar challenge

- How does belief affect research and studies within parapsychology

- What are the differences between parapsychology and the paranormal

- What is the most amazing psychic experience Craig Weiler has personally experienced

- What is the most exciting stories in parapsychology that Craig Weiler is working on now

- Dr. Bill Bengston has used psychic abilities to heal

- Healing energy is embedded in objects 

- Since entanglement exists, space and time cannot actually be fundamental to reality

- Why do people get so angry about discussing or researching psychic abilities 

- What is the future of parapsychological research

and more...

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