Psi Wars edited by James Alcock, Jean Burns and Anthony Freeman, Imprint Academic, £14.95, $24.95, ISBN 0907845487 Reviewed by Robert Matthews
IT’S late in the evening, the drink has been flowing, and the conversation veers towards the weird. Is telepathy possible? Does astrology work? You know the kind of stuff. Cue the ritual slanging match between the wide-eyed credulist (“Well, it works for me”) and the sceptic (“There’s not a shred of scientific evidence”).
Those who loathe such exchanges because of their sterile predictability now have a powerful antidote in this authoritative and accessible review of the state of…
