Post by xXSpookyXx on Oct 9, 2008 18:26:19 GMT -11
Here is a good article about Ed and Lorraine Warren that is quite fitting here! Enjoy!
An Investigation of Ed and Lorraine Warren
Perry DeAngelis and Steven Novella
7/1/1997
Ed and Lorraine Warren have been investigating hauntings for over 40 years and claim to have mountains of proof for the existence of ghosts. We sought to examine their evidence to see if it stands up to the scientific rigor they claim to endorse.
Ed and Lorraine Warren hunt ghosts - ghosts, apparitions, demons, possessed people, places and things. They have been doing so for decades, and claim to have looked at nearly 8000 cases. They are world renowned for this practice, and they dwell right here in Monroe Connecticut.
As a regional skeptical organization, we have taken on the task of investigating local paranormal claims. We sought to evaluate the phenomenon of ghosts (in the generic sense, referring to all manner of spiritual manifestations) and see if there is any evidence to support the hypothesis that the phenomenon exists. On the matter of hauntings, the Warrens are one of the preeminent experts, and they are local, so naturally we decided to look into their work. Also, they claim to have scientific evidence which does indeed prove the existence of ghosts, which sounds like a testable claim into which we can sink our investigative teeth. What we found was a very nice couple, some genuinely sincere people, but absolutely no compelling evidence, or, more precisely, there was a ton of �evidence,� but none of it stands up to rigorous scientific testing, and most of it not even to cursory testing. None of it.
Like all pseudosciences, the field of ghost hunting makes bold pretense to being legitimate science. The Warrens call their organization the New England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR), but as we will see, they are a �research� organization in name only. Their website proudly proclaims that �Our mission is to move the area of psychic phenomena out of the dark ages into the mainstream of rigorous scientific thought and inquiry.� Yet upon inspection, their methods lack the components of genuine scientific inquiry or even the most fundamental attempt at scientific rigor. Rather than an earnest search for the truth, regardless of what that may be, their society seeks only to support their a priori assumption that the phenomenon is real.
Read more of the article here...
www.theness.com/articles.asp?id=39
An Investigation of Ed and Lorraine Warren
Perry DeAngelis and Steven Novella
7/1/1997
Ed and Lorraine Warren have been investigating hauntings for over 40 years and claim to have mountains of proof for the existence of ghosts. We sought to examine their evidence to see if it stands up to the scientific rigor they claim to endorse.
Ed and Lorraine Warren hunt ghosts - ghosts, apparitions, demons, possessed people, places and things. They have been doing so for decades, and claim to have looked at nearly 8000 cases. They are world renowned for this practice, and they dwell right here in Monroe Connecticut.
As a regional skeptical organization, we have taken on the task of investigating local paranormal claims. We sought to evaluate the phenomenon of ghosts (in the generic sense, referring to all manner of spiritual manifestations) and see if there is any evidence to support the hypothesis that the phenomenon exists. On the matter of hauntings, the Warrens are one of the preeminent experts, and they are local, so naturally we decided to look into their work. Also, they claim to have scientific evidence which does indeed prove the existence of ghosts, which sounds like a testable claim into which we can sink our investigative teeth. What we found was a very nice couple, some genuinely sincere people, but absolutely no compelling evidence, or, more precisely, there was a ton of �evidence,� but none of it stands up to rigorous scientific testing, and most of it not even to cursory testing. None of it.
Like all pseudosciences, the field of ghost hunting makes bold pretense to being legitimate science. The Warrens call their organization the New England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR), but as we will see, they are a �research� organization in name only. Their website proudly proclaims that �Our mission is to move the area of psychic phenomena out of the dark ages into the mainstream of rigorous scientific thought and inquiry.� Yet upon inspection, their methods lack the components of genuine scientific inquiry or even the most fundamental attempt at scientific rigor. Rather than an earnest search for the truth, regardless of what that may be, their society seeks only to support their a priori assumption that the phenomenon is real.
Read more of the article here...
www.theness.com/articles.asp?id=39