Anomalous information reception by research mediums demonstrated using a novel triple-blind protocol
Julie Beischel, Gary E. Schwartz · 2007 · Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, 3(1), 23-27
Summary
Small triple-blind study testing whether selected research mediums could report accurate information about deceased people while the medium, sitter, and experimenter were shielded from ordinary cueing.
Why it matters here
A core positive mediumship paper because it explicitly targets cold reading, sitter cueing, experimenter cueing, and fraud as alternative explanations.
Linked claims
Stage mentalists reproduce 'mediumship' on demand. Cold and hot reading are well-documented techniques.
Most claimed mediumship is reproducible by cold reading. Some controlled lab studies (Beischel and others) report small but anomalous effects.
Related evidence hubs
Evidence around dying, near-death experience, and what (if anything) continues.
Cryptomnesia, anoxia models, cold reading. Counter-anchors.
Reports of contact with the deceased.
Whether anything of mind continues.
Telepathy, precognition, remote viewing, PK.