CONTEXT Many spontaneous cases of extra-sensory perception (ESP) seem to occur without the conscious intent of the experient to manifest any anomalous phenomena. Indeed, Stanford׳s psi-mediated instrumental response (PMIR) theory, which frames ESP as a goal-oriented function, goes as far as to suggest that such intent may be counterproductive to psi. OBJECTIVES The present study was the lates...

Following we consider strategies to overcome the situation described in a previous article (López-Ibor JJ, López-Ibor MI. Paving the Way for New Research Strategies in Mental Disorders. First part: the recurring crisis of psychiatry. Actas Esp Psiquiat. 2013;41(1):33-43), by putting emphasis on psychopathology instead than in classification, in functions rather than in diagnostic criteria, to b...

Different genetic supports for the tet(S) gene in enterococci 1 2 Carla Novais , Ana R. Freitas , Eduarda Silveira, Fernando Baquero, Luísa 3 Peixe, Adam P. Roberts, Teresa M. Coque 3,4,5 4 5 REQUIMTE. Faculdade Farmácia. Universidade do Porto. Portugal; CEBIMED. 6 Faculdade Ciências da Saúde. Universidade Fernando Pessoa. Porto. Portugal; Servicio 7 de Microbiología, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de...

This paper presents a brief review of the debate between parapsychologists and skeptics regarding the issue of replication in experimental tests of extrasensory perception (ESP) using a sensory reduction technique known as ganzfeld. The review is followed by a basic assessment of 59 ganzfeld ESP studies reported in the period following the publication of a stringent set of methodological guidel...

Although statisticians have the job of making conclusions based on data, for many questions in science and society prior beliefs are strong and may take precedence over data when people make decisions. For other questions, there are experts who could shed light on the situation that may not be captured with available data. One of the appealing aspects of Bayesian statistics is that the methods ...

Comment The results of this study show that the likelihood of this particular group of pathologists or pathologists in general being capable of divining the sex or star sign of a patient, even with recourse to the perception of light, is no greater than chance. From this it is reasonable to deduce that pathologists do not possess extrasensory perception, at least as far as medical practice is c...

Last September the CIA confirmed the existence of a 20-year, $20 million research program in "remote viewing," a subvariety of extrasensory perception. On October 29, a Jack Anderson column added more details, and Ted Koppel of ABC's Nightline weighed in with a program on November 28, by which time many newspapers and wire services had picked up the story. By December, a number of pundits began...