Dean Radin

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Dean Radin is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. He is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, in Petaluma, California, USA, on the Adjunct Faculty at Sonoma State University, on the Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, and four-time former President of the Parapsychological Association.[1][2]

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[edit] Biography

Radin earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and earned both a masters degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[3]

He worked at AT&T Bell Labs and GTE Labs, mainly on human factors of advanced telecommunications products and services, and then held appointments at Princeton University, Edinburgh University, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, SRI International, Interval Research Corporation, and Boundary Institute. At these facilities he was engaged in basic research on exceptional human capacities, principally psi phenomena.[3]

In 1988, 1993, 1998, and 2005 Radin was the elected President of the Parapsychological Association, an affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published numerous scientific papers[4], as well as articles and books written for a popular audience: The Conscious Universe (1997) and Entangled Minds (2006).[5]

The Conscious Universe (1997, HarperCollins) was awarded Amazon com's 1998 Category Bestseller Award, the Scientific and Medical Network 1997 Book Award, and the Anomalist's 1997 Book Award, and as of 2006 it is in its 16th printing. It has proved to be popular and has been translated into Turkish, Korean and French, with several other translations under way. In January, 1998, Nobel Laureate physicist Brian Josephson wrote in the (British newspaper), the Guardian: "If asked to nominate the most significant scientific event of 1997, I would cite the publication of this book." Entangled Minds is being translated into Romanian, Portuguese and Japanese (as of December 2006). Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis has added Entangled Minds to his list of recommended books on his website.[6]

[edit] Research and Controversy

Radin's field of study is regarded as scientifically controversial, and as such Radin has been the target of skeptical organizations who assert that parapsychology is a pseudoscience [7] [8] despite the fact that the Parapsychological Association is a bona fide affiliate of the largest scientific organization in the world, the AAAS. Radin, and many other scientists over the past century, have responded to criticisms with additional research.[9] [10] [11]

Radin has conducted research on how significant events which capture the attention of many people may affect random number generators, including events such as the September 11 terrorist attacks, the announcement of the O.J. Simpson verdict, a Super Bowl, and the American Academy Awards presentations,[12]. Other publications report analytical studies on how lunar cycles may affect psi and winning at gambling casinos,[13], meta-analyses of experiments studying mind-matter interactions on the fall of dice and random events, experimental tests of "presentiment" effects in the autonomic and central nervous system, EEG correlations between distant dyads, effects of distant intention on physiology, and models of mind-matter interaction. Many of his reports can be found in peer-reviewed journals [14].

Radin's last experiment before he was dismissed from UNLV consisted of Umbanda mediums, basically spiritualistic healers, in Brazil, attempting to heal American subjects six thousand miles away at UNLV. In an interview Radin stated the reason for his dismissal was to change the perception of UNLV from a laughing stock to being taken seriously. [15][3]

According to Radin, the probable reality of remote viewing was scientifically established by the US government's Stargate Project.[16][17] Radin worked on a remote viewing project with former military remote viewer Joseph McMoneagle in 1996. [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] Despite his own skepticism about claims of psychokinetic metal-bending, Radin recounted in a recent interview how he bent the bowl of a heavy soup spoon [23] using a gentle touch at a spoon bending party.

[edit] Dean Radin and the Indian Rope Trick

When it comes to the famous Indian rope trick Radin says," There are all these classic cases of the fakirs throwing the rope in the air and the little boy climbs up to the top and disappears and all kinds of magical things happen. All the Easterners see it and will swear up and down that they saw it, whereas the Westerners see nothing. They were watching the fakir just stand there with his arms folded and the little boy standing there and the rope is on the ground and nothing happened." Radin's explanation is the fakir melted minds.[24]

[edit] Trivia

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://parapsych.org/history_of_pa_presidents.html History of the PA Presidency Retrieved January 5, 2007
  2. ^ IONS homepage, IONS staff directory retrieved on August 14, 2006
  3. ^ a b http://www.deanradin.com/NewWeb/bio.html Biography on Dean Radin's own website retrieved on August 14, 2006
  4. ^ http://www.deanradin.com/NewWeb/activitiespubs.html
  5. ^ http://www.deanradin.com/NewWeb/activities.html Bibliography on Dean Radin's website retrieved August 14, 2006
  6. ^ [1]www.karymullis.com recommended reading list
  7. ^ http://www.skepticreport.com/pseudoscience/radinbook.htm Skeptic Report A detailed skeptical review of Dean Radin's The Conscious Universe by Morten Monrad Pedersen
  8. ^ http://skepticreport.com/pseudoscience/radin2002.htm An Evening with Dean Radin by Claus Larsen, a critical examination of Radin's research methodology
  9. ^ http://anson.ucdavis.edu/%7Eutts/air2.html An Assessment for the Evidence For Psychic Functioning by Jessica Utts, 1995
  10. ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2320/is_2_63/ai_58517910/pg_1 The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena, book review by Richard Broughton , The Journal of Parapsychology, June, 1999
  11. ^ http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/psi/tucson.html The Paranormal: The Evidence and its Implications for Consciousness by Jessica Utts and Brian D. Josephson, 1996
  12. ^ The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena by Dean Radin, 1997
  13. ^ Seeking psi in the casino. Radin, C.I. & Rebman, J. M. (1998), Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 62 (850), 193-219
  14. ^ see http://www.deanradin.com/NewWeb/activitiespubs.html for a list of publications
  15. ^ David Jay Brown Interview with Dean Radin
  16. ^ http://deanradin.blogspot.com/ Weird Science 12 Jun 2006
  17. ^ Time magazine: The Vision Thing, by Douglas Waller, Washington, 11 Dec 1995, p. 48
  18. ^ http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/hambone/people1.html People / Researchers: Joseph McMoneagle, Dean Radin, Also a list of some of the top names in parapsychology research
  19. ^ Captain of My Ship: Master of Soul by F. Holmes Atwater, Joseph McMoneagle, Dean Radin, Skip Atwater, Hamptons Road Publishing Co., 2001
  20. ^ The Ultimate Time Machine: A Remote Viewer's Perception of Time and Predictions For the New Millennium by Joseph McMoneagle and Charles T. Tart, Hampton Roads Publishing Co., 1998
  21. ^ http://deanradin.blogspot.com/ Weird Science 12 Jun 2006
  22. ^ http://www.enlightenment.com/media/index.html An Enlightenment Interview with Dean Radin, Ph.D., 17 Sept 1998
  23. ^ http://www.skeptiko.com/index.php?id=9 Dean Radin interview on the perils of psi research and his spoon bending experience - 1/28/2007
  24. ^ [2] Enlightenment Interview with Dean Radin See: The Weight of Credulity

[edit] See also

Joseph Banks Rhine

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