Concerns with Wikipedia
Also see: Pseudoscience Skeptic Wikipedia Bullying Editors Concerns with Wikipedia Wikipedia Watch Wikipedia Arbitration General Wikipedia is hugely important as a means of documenting society and making that knowledge base…
Wikipedia Watch
Also see: Pseudoscience Skeptic Wikipedia Bullying Editors Concerns with Wikipedia Wikipedia Watch Wikipedia Arbitration Introduction Before including a point in an article, an editor must find someone, with reasonable credentials…
Peer-Reviewed Online Journals
Also see: Peer Review or Vetting? Abstract This article recommends a methodology intended to provide authors of articles on frontier subjects a means of producing reliable source articles while fostering…
Peer Review or Vetting?
Also at https://atransc.org/being-a-good-witness/ These practices are recommendations provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Alike 3.0 Unported License Also, See Failure to Replicate Fallacy, Survival-Related Media Review and Rating and Peer Reviewed Online Journals…
Pseudoscience
Also see: Pseudoscience Skeptic Wikipedia Bullying Editors Concerns with Wikipedia Wikipedia Watch Wikipedia Arbitration Merriam-Webster Dictionary Definition of Pseudoscience: A system of theories, assumptions, and methods erroneously regarded as scientific. pseu-do-sci-en-tif-ic,…
Clarity of Communication
Abstract for Clarity of Communications This essay focuses on some of the factors controlling the clarity of communication with others. The idea is that there are different ways of learning and…
Quotes From People Who Should Know Better
Myopia: a lack of foresight or discernment; a narrow view of something Ours is a small community concerned with a very complex range of subjects, all related to subtle energy,…
Opinion Setters: What to Believe
Introduction for Opinion Setters You can tell you are in a maturing community when you notice that a few truths have begun to dominate how people in your community think. These truths…
Comments on “Harnessing the Paranormal Community”
A note: I read Auerbach’s essay on “Harnessing the Paranormal Community” with great interest. It is a good one, but I felt it ignored the relationship between serious investigators and hobbyists. There…
Trojan Horse
Introduction Perhaps more than most, people who study the nature of mind as it relates to the psi field and survival, understand the need for a second opinion from others….
Wikipedia Bullying Editors
Also see: Pseudoscience Skeptic Wikipedia Bullying Editors Concerns with Wikipedia Wikipedia Watch Wikipedia Arbitration Abstract An arbitration case concerning the interactions of a few editors turned to a discussion about…
Skeptic
Also see: Pseudoscience Skeptic Wikipedia Bullying Editors Concerns with Wikipedia Wikipedia Watch Wikipedia Arbitration Abstract Perhaps the most important trait for anyone involved in the study of frontier subjects is…
Open Letter to Paranormalists: Limits of science, trust and responsibility
Tom Butler, 2017 (Revised November 2017) Related Essays The Arrogance of Scientific Authority Open Letter to Survival Researchers Debunking Survival Under Cover of False Academic Authority Open Letter to Paranormalists:…
Consensus Building in the Paranormalist Community
Abstract A community of people cooperating to achieve a common goal is the building block of civilization. From a metaphysical perspective, discussions amongst members of a cooperative community enable them…
Paranormalist Community
The Paranormalist Community Think of a community as a collection of people who share an interest in one or more ideas. If you have more than a passing interest in…
Elephant-Paranormal
Opinion 7 Abstract Time and again, I have encountered people who say that an instance of claimed paranormal phenomena is fake. Practitioners are rarely given an opportunity to explain their…
Wikipedia Arbitration
Also see: Pseudoscience Skeptic Wikipedia Bullying Editors Concerns with Wikipedia Wikipedia Watch Wikipedia Arbitration Wikipedia content is policed with a hierarchy of editors within the bounds of editing rules. Disagreements…
Author’s Point of View
Major Points of View Perhaps the most difficult lesson I have learned about the academic community is that it is necessary to identify the point of view of…
