Meeting Notes from the Latest SSE-Japan Event
Paul E. Cizdziel, Ph.D.
SSE-Japan Chapter Chairman
First Meeting of the SSE-Japan Chapter
The first SSE-Japan Chapter meeting was held on February 6, 2019 at Roppongi Hobgoblins Pub. Seventeen people were in attendance, and of the attendees, slightly more than half held a university level science-focused education, and at least six attendees had a Ph.D.
Dr. Fernando Alvarez Finds an Experimenter Psi Effect in Precognition Tests with Planarians
Since 2010, biologist Dr. Fernando Alvarez of Sevilla, Spain has been adapting the methods of presentiment research to the animal kingdom, looking first at the behavior in finches, and then in recent years, planarians (a type of flatworm). In the latest issue of the Journal of Scientific Exploration (JSE), Dr. Alvarez took this research a step further by investigating how experimenter psi might influence the results of such studies.
2019 SSE Conference Announced
The theme for the 38th annual meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration will be Consilience*: Developing the Foundations of a New Scientific Paradigm.
*Consilience refers to the principle that evidence from unrelated sources, especially science and the humanities, can converge and produce unified conclusions.