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Welcome to the Long Island branch of the Center for Inquiry (CFI), a nonprofit organization advancing science, reason, and secular values.
The Center for Inquiry-Long Island sponsors public educational programs, philosophy discussions, book clubs, and social events. Come meet people in your neighborhood, exercise your brain, and get involved.
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# The Science of Weird Shit | Chris French
Thursday, May 2, 2024, 7pm, Eastern Time
If the wider scientific community is right to be skeptical about paranormal claims, why do so many people believe in the paranormal—including a sizable number who claim to have had direct personal experience of paranormal phenomena?
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Join us on Thursday, May 2, at 7:00 p.m. ET for a free Skeptical Inquirer Presents livestream with Chris French, author of The Science of Weird Shit: Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal. French will provide an overview of anomalistic psychology, which attempts to address believers by proposing alternative, nonparanormal explanations for ostensibly paranormal experiences. He’ll also discuss key factors such as the unreliability of memory, hallucinatory experiences, and a range of cognitive biases.
Chris French is emeritus professor of psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, where, for more than two decades, he headed the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit. He is a fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a patron of Humanists UK. He has published well over 200 articles and book chapters covering a wide range of topics. Currently, his main area of research is the psychology of paranormal beliefs and anomalous experiences.