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I think there's an important distinction between showing that certain interviewing practices are preferable and showing that the Ariel interviews are therefore unreliable. The protocol is designed primarily to maximize accurate recall from...

I read quite a bit of the literature on interviewing children (which I cite here: https://revue.comitepara.be/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Scepticisme_Scientifique_12_2024_SI.pdf) and their reliability as eyewitnesses. Conclusions from other...

I think there's an important distinction between showing that certain interviewing practices are preferable and showing that the Ariel interviews are therefore unreliable. The protocol is designed primarily to maximize accurate recall from...

I read quite a bit of the literature on interviewing children (which I cite here: https://revue.comitepara.be/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Scepticisme_Scientifique_12_2024_SI.pdf) and their reliability as eyewitnesses. Conclusions from other...

I've been led here from another thread where I asked about what constitutes good interview methodology. Having now read through much of this thread, I think @Charlie Wiser and several others have done a lot of good work identifying problems with...

thanks for the insight ill have a look your paper. I was aware of that Mack hadnt done "good work" and he had some kind of ethics review with the college he was associated with at the time but the techniques you discussed here seem more than...

I read quite a bit of the literature on interviewing children (which I cite here: https://revue.comitepara.be/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Scepticisme_Scientifique_12_2024_SI.pdf) and their reliability as eyewitnesses. Conclusions from other...

Without getting too far into the technical arguments, my main problem with this series of papers is that they seem to keep building additional hypotheses on top of the 2021 result without first resolving some of the fundamental limitations of...

The work of Ivo Busko sort of fills that bill: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20407. His goal was to look for similar transients in images shot with a similar telescope and camera at the time and he found some from Hamburg University. These plates...

I deeply desire to see if there are more plates with similar artifacts, from other stations, that could just prove these defects to be much more common. Sure there has to be some other similar plates in some old archives.

Hi, I'm Ed. I'm generally interested in investigating paranormal/supernatural claims.

I read quite a bit of the literature on interviewing children (which I cite here: https://revue.comitepara.be/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Scepticisme_Scientifique_12_2024_SI.pdf) and their reliability as eyewitnesses. Conclusions from other...

Hi, I'm Ed. I'm generally interested in investigating paranormal/supernatural claims.