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Chris French

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Chris French is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, where, until March 2024, he was also the Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit. He frequently appears on radio and television casting a sceptical eye over paranormal claims. He writes for the Guardian and The Skeptic magazine and is a former Editor of the latter. His most recent book, published by MIT Press in 2024, is The Science of Weird Shit: Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal.

Has the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an increase in ghostly encounters?

With pandemic-related anxiety and stress causing an increase in experience of sleep paralysis, we may well see an uptick in paranormal belief.

(False) memories of childhood

On 5 October 2017, I, along with four other memory researchers, read out an essay on memory in front of an audience at the...

Spreading Fake News

J K ROWLING RECENTLY apologised for a tweet in which she had criticised Donald Trump for apparently deliberately ignoring a disabled child’s attempts to...

How Do We See What Isn’t So: Part 2

IN PART 1 OF THIS ARTICLE, I presented several examples of contexts where our inherent “effort after meaning” can lead us to see meaningful...

From the archives: The day I met world renowned psychic, Shirley Ghostman

From the archives in 2012, Chris French recounts one of the weirdest days of his life: the time he was invited to appear on the TV show of Shirley Ghostman

Chris French remembers Hilary Evans, 1929-2011

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Hilary Evans, who passed away on 27 July 2011.

James Randi in 2011, on mortality, Project Alpha, Peter Popoff and so much more…

From the archives in 2011, and following 2010's Evening with James Randi and Friends, Chris French took a moment to sit down with Randi

Volume 22 Issue 2 Letters: Chris French comments on the letters from Rupert Sheldrake and James Randi

Chris French comments on the exchange between Rupert Sheldrake and James Randi: One very good reason for me not raising the topic of Randi’s Pigasus...
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