The Telepathy Tapes: Hope or Hype? with Stuart Vyse, Psychologist & Behavioral Scientist

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502 Conversations - Science, Skepticism, Pseudoscience, Philosophy, and more.

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Audio uploads of Dedham TV's "502 Conversations". Conversations with experts in their fields about science; skepticism; medicine; quackery; pseudoscience; philosophy; belief, why and how we believe; knowledge; and more. Guests have included Dr. Paul Offit; microbiologist Natalia Pasternak; Julia Sweeney; Sheldon Helms; JAMA Editor in Chief Dr. Howard Bauchner; Massimo Pigliucci; James Randi; Ray Hyman; James Alcock; Dr. Harriet Hall; and others. Full interviews also available on youtube. © 2022 Dedham TV. Unauthorized duplication, for any reason, without permission is prohibited.

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The Telepathy Tapes: Hope or Hype? with Stuart Vyse, Psychologist & Behavioral Scientist

502 Conversations - Science, Skepticism, Pseudoscience, Philosophy, and more.

58 minutes 40 seconds

7 months ago

The Telepathy Tapes: Hope or Hype? with Stuart Vyse, Psychologist & Behavioral Scientist

A video version of this show is available at ⁠⁠https://youtu.be/jNo6479P3C4

Stuart Vyse is a behavioral scientist, teacher, and writer, with a PhD in psychology. He is an expert on superstition and irrational behavior, and has been quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times. Dr. Vyse has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, CNN International, the PBS NewsHour, and NPR’s Science Friday. Dr. Vyse is the author of several books, including Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition, which won the William James Book Award of the American Psychological Association; Superstition: A Very Short Introduction; and, The Uses of Delusion: Why It’s Not Always Rational to be Rational.He is a contributing editor for Skeptical Inquirer magazine with his “Behavior & Belief” column, and has also written for the Observer, Medium, The Atlantic, The Good Men Project, Tablet, and Time.Dr. Vyse is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. © 2025 Dedham TV. Unauthorized duplication, for any reason, without permission, is prohibited.

Further resources:stuartvyse.comfacilitatedcommunication.orghttps://www.youtube.com/@fcisnotscienceStuart Vyse “The Telepathy Tapes” article: https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/the-telepathy-tapes-a-dangerous-cornucopia-of-pseudoscience/Prisoners of Silence PBS Frontline 1993 https://ia902900.us.archive.org/33/items/PrisonersofSilence/Frontline.S11E17.Prisoners.of.Silence.1993.VHSRip.AAC2.0.x264-rattera.mp4Project Alpha: https://skepticalinquirer.org/1983/07/the-project-alpha-experiment-part-1-the-first-two-years/https://skepticalinquirer.org/1983/10/the-project-alpha-experiment-part-2-beyond-the-laboratory/N-Rays “The story of N-rays, which fooled many respectable scientists, has been used ever since as a cautionary tale of how easy it is to deceive oneself into seeing something that is not really there.” https://www.aps.org/archives/publications/apsnews/200708/history.cfmand https://www.wired.com/2014/09/fantastically-wrong-n-rays/