Dean Radin thinks there’s something real going on with Ganzfeld telepathy experiments, and runs the numbers on what it’d cost to set up a satisfactory demonstration based on the assumption that people are getting a 32 % success rate instead of the statistically expected 25 % without any known physical causation. He comes up with an experiment that takes 14 years to run and costs somewhat in the excess of $1 million, and concludes that it’s not worth doing for a million dollar price but would probably be for ten million dollars.
He could make additional money from bets. After getting preliminary results, he could ask for donations. He could just contact the X prize foundation and possibly some other skeptics’ organizations and ask for ten million rather than one, showing a slightly more detailed version of his post (especially how blinding is done). I expect they would agree.
Dean Radin thinks there’s something real going on with Ganzfeld telepathy experiments, and runs the numbers on what it’d cost to set up a satisfactory demonstration based on the assumption that people are getting a 32 % success rate instead of the statistically expected 25 % without any known physical causation. He comes up with an experiment that takes 14 years to run and costs somewhat in the excess of $1 million, and concludes that it’s not worth doing for a million dollar price but would probably be for ten million dollars.
He could make additional money from bets. After getting preliminary results, he could ask for donations. He could just contact the X prize foundation and possibly some other skeptics’ organizations and ask for ten million rather than one, showing a slightly more detailed version of his post (especially how blinding is done). I expect they would agree.
Fun fact: “radin” is French for “penny-pincher”.