There should be room for a bit of fringe science – but it’s liable to suck you in.

It can’t do much for your self-esteem when the media get interested in your research because it is shutting down. But Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory probably aren’t too bothered by that. For the attention generated by this week’s closure of the PEAR lab — or rather, by the suggestion in the New York Times that this removes a source of embarrassment to the university — can surely only enhance the profile of Jahn and Dunne’s vision of exploring “consciousness-related anomalies”.

Read the column here.

There should be room for a bit of fringe science – but it’s liable to suck you in.

It can’t do much for your self-esteem when the media get interested in your research because it is shutting down. But Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory probably aren’t too bothered by that. For the attention generated by this week’s closure of the PEAR lab — or rather, by the suggestion in the New York Times that this removes a source of embarrassment to the university — can surely only enhance the profile of Jahn and Dunne’s vision of exploring “consciousness-related anomalies”.

Read the column here.