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Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast
Episode: The Appeal of Motivated Reasoning in Anomalistic Psychology - Dr. Chris French
Description: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, we all know that. But Dr. Christopher French, professor of Anomalistic Psychology at the University of London, might know it more than the rest of us - he’s spent his career in pursuit of tangible evidence for all kinds of paranormal beliefs. Extrasensory perception, telepathy, dowsing - and has come up with little proof that these phenomena occur - but has not lost the skeptical spark that leaves all possibilities on the table.
Along the way, he became interested in the question of cognition - how do people co...