Was There Evidence of Global Consciousness on September 11, 2001?

摘要

This note critically reviews the methodology of the accompanying papers by Roger Nelson and Dean Radin, emphasizing a key limiting feature of the experimental procedure. I personally disagree with the former's conclusion that anomalous effects have been unequivocally established. The latter's paper, analyzing the same data, views its results as suggestions to be tested using future data, which for reasons discussed below is the only possible result of exploratory analysis. While I judge the degree of cogency of all of the results in both papers as low, this note is essentially a set of suggestions that I hope will encourage both you, the Reader, to judge for yourself and the researchers in this field to improve their methodology.