Scientific Fraud - research into psychic powers

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Scientific fraud, an act of deception or misrepresentation of one's own work, which violates ethical standards. It can take the form of plagiarism or falsification of data etc. Scientific fraud has been attributed to attain high levels of personal or professional success for example those who are in a search for promotion, status or to obtain research grants. Anomalous events can be investigated within the study of collective behaviour, religion, the afterlife etc. The use of these paradigms would reduce problems associated with sceptical attacks, low rates of replicability, and experimenter effects.

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There are two types of psycho kinesis; Macro PK which is clearly observable effects eg levitating a chair and Micro PK, weaker effects which are not noticible by the eye eg. Influencing the throw of a dice. There has been alot of research which has been done in to this by researchers and scientists. Uri geller is one of the most well known person with apparent psycho kinetis abilities. He has performed in front of thousands of people by spoon bending, telepathy etc. However whenever Geller is asked to perform these things on the spot he has not been ...

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