richard wiseman

Hi, I can't remember who replaced him but I thought that he was one of the best (perhaps THE best) speaker last year. He was the one that had the video of the fire walkers. I was trying to find it on youtube but I don't know the guys name. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Richard Wiseman. Paranormality. ISBN 978-0-956-8756-2-4 Amazon Kindle EBook, June 2011. $8.99. Richard Wiseman, as the book bio helpfully tells us, began as a professional magician and segued into psychology. Intrigued by reports of paranormal events and people, he began to specialize in...

Richard Wiseman's latest UK bestseller, Paranormality, can't find a US publisher, so the author decides to self-publish. Says Wiseman: https://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/paranormality-launches-in-the-usa-and-the-friday-puzzle/ I've just bought mine, and I urge other skeptics in...

Hi folks, has anyone read it? Would you care for a comment? Thanks.

Hi folks. Please permit the vague thread title, as the following request will probably sound similar: I am looking for a video which - I think - was posted in a SWIFT issue about two to three years ago. The video was about perception and about how much stuff we filter or ignore. It featured a...

(Hi from your friends at www.skeptiko.com :)) JSPR has published a penetrating critique by Chris Carter of Richard Wiseman's latest attack on parapsychology - his 'Heads I win, tails you lose' paper published in Skeptical Inquirer. Chris Carter's reply...

Can anyone point me to a better understanding of this part of the bolded quote by Richard ? Or if you know let me know. I agree that by the standards of any other area of science that remote viewing is proven, but begs the question: do we need higher standards of evidence when we study the...

How to Have More Sex with Richard Wiseman http://bostonskeptics.com/?p=636 (Rebecca gets the blame or credit for the title. :) ) The Boston Skeptics present an evening with Richard Wiseman. It will be at the Brattle Theater, 22:00 on 8 January. Tickets are $10 and are available at the...

Toronto Skeptics in the Pub http://www.scienceandreason.ca/events ASR presents Richard Wiseman Date: Monday, January 4, 2010 Time: 12:00pm until 1:30pm Location: Fox & Fiddle, 27 Wellesley St., 3rd floor (across from Wellesley station). Notes: ASR is privileged to present an exclusive...

Ok, this has been bugging me a bit lately, and when I again saw it referenced in another thread I thought I'd finally open a new one just for this. EXTRAORDINARY CLAIMS REQUIRE EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE. I wonder what people mean by this. The way I see it, is that extraordinary claims require...

I apologise if this has been posted before, I heard Richard Wiseman on the radio today talking about this list. http://www.richardwiseman.com/hauntings2/experiments Was satisfied to hear his answer on whether he believed in ghosts: "Hmm.. Absolutely not." Number seven is the best I reckon...

I hesitate to start a separate thread, as the collection of "ghost" pics discussed here is part of the whole thing. However, that thread has been somewhat derailed and I want to make sure any UK types that can make it know about this event involving Richard Wiseman...

I have to go out now and have not had time to read the thread in question properly but I just noticed another thread mentioning Sue Blackmore, and it reminded me of something. There seems to be this widespread sceptical myth that all parapsychologists are delusional woo peddlers who spend their...

I'm so focused on the fact that the shirts had changed, I missed not only the camera cuts, but the changing of the table and the background. I did notice the Wookie/gorilla thing watching later on, though...

http://dream-detective.com/_wsn/page2.html It appears we were all wrong about this Wiseman guy. And that may also extend to his clone, the equally handsome Dr. Plait. I smell conspiracy. I also love the quote: Well I'm convinced.

I showed my TAM4 clips of Wiseman's forward-then-reverse audio illusions to a group of physics teachers. One of them quickly unearthed this website: http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm I know there are even more out there; add your found links to this thread!

Surprised i am to read this: http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/exam/Dace_amazing3.htm Now im curious about WHAT exactly is he considering to be perinormal. Does anybody know anything about it? Any information or urls would be of great help. regards

Hi, folks. Yet again, one of my regular reads, the British magazine Fortean Times, has taken some cheap shots at Randi and skeptics. The piece in question appears on page 15 of issue #194 (April 2005), titled "X-ray Eye Exam." The authors seem to be rather displeased with the examination of...

Richard Wiseman is currently running a study at the Edinburg International Science Festival, and asks for participants:

If you were at TAM3 and saw Dr. Wiseman's presentation, the math trick he demostrated at the end is called the "Magic Square". People seemed to really enjoy how he presented it, so I thought I would post a link to a website describing it...