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The Skeptics Guide #919 - Feb 18 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Anomalies in Parapsychology

Psychologists get involved with a lot of that kind of phenomena in their research because they're looking for anomalies. An anomalies are, I think, have a psychological neuroscientific explanation. So they actually end up documenting a lot of interesting, you know, psychological phenomena. But they didn't recognize it as such. They just know, huh, that's odd. Nobody noticed my fake ghost walking through this highly populated area. Because they weren't not neuroscientists or they're not thinking in that way, they missed it. It had to be rediscovered later by a psychologist.

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