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Talk:Society for Psychical Research

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"I've just discovered we have a page on RationalWiki! I would love to meet this writer who has such deep insight into the thinking of "most" SPR members. Interestingly it doesn't mention that Soal was exposed by a member of the SPR! And isn't it just so depressing how many of us seem to subscribe to magical thinking?" [1] Scream!! (talk) 12:09, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Is this another one of Forrest's articles? The guy strikes me as a more literate version of Proxima, with psychics instead of religion.--ZooGuard (talk) 12:46, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
His comments about Samuel Soal are wrong, it was scientists such as George R. Price and C. E. M Hansel who were some of the first to criticise his work. Also interesting the first comment on the facebook page:
"I can't wait till someone finds that concrete evidence that no-one can deny and all those people that ridiculed the existence of spirits"
When most of the members according the SPR history compiled by Renee Haynes do not believe in spirits. These people have clearly never studied their own society! Forests (talk) 09:58, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Apparently they're making a wiki or something[edit]

[2] FüzzyCätPötätö (talk/stalk) 00:24, 21 April 2015 (UTC)