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62:. Sargent was the first parapsychologist to obtain a Cambridge doctorate. He taught psychology at the same university. Many of his experiments were made using students from the science and geography departments opposite the Psychology department on the Downing Site, paying £2-3 per experiment; the main task would be to guess the colour or value of the next card to be chosen. 158:
would "not have a clue that serious doubt had been cast on more than a quarter of the studies involved" Sargent and Chuck Honortons. When Blackmore confronted Sargent, he told her "it wouldn't matter if some experiments were unreliable because, after all, we know that psi exists".
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on the review wrote "Carl Sargent would have us believe that D. D. Home was not caught out as a fraud. Sadly for Dr Sargent, though, he was", Morrell concluded that Sargent had displayed a personal gullibility.
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gamebooks and novels for Games Workshop from 1988 to 1995, some under the pseudonym Keith Martin. Games Workshop moved its last remaining role-playing game line,
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Blackmore states that Sargent "deliberately violated his own protocols and in one trial had almost certainly cheated." Psychologists reading
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who described it as "an introduction to parapsychology that one can put into the hands of an inquiring student without embarrassment."
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This article is about the parapsychologist and fantasy game designer. For the politician, see
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were based in Cambridge, and they met with Sargent after he had submitted an article to
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Sargent's ganzfeld experiments have been criticized for being open to error and fraud.
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Leaps of faith: science, miracles, and the search for supernatural consolation
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He later worked as a freelance designer, and was brought in by TSR to work on
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Sargent was schooled in South Wales and the West of England. He then attended
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were evidence for supernatural powers. Sargent wrote a negative review of
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In their book Sargent and Eysenck argued that the experiments of
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British parapsychologist and fantasy game designer (1952–2018)
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Sargent, Carl (1987). "Sceptical fairytales from Bristol".
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Index

Carl Sargeant
roleplaying game
pen name
Fighting Fantasy
gamebooks
Churchill College, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
PhD
psychology
parapsychology
ganzfeld experiments
University of Cambridge
Hans Eysenck
New Scientist
John Beloff
William Crookes
Daniel Dunglas Home
Ruth Brandon
Susan Blackmore
Skeptical Inquirer
Daryl Bem
Sargent, Carl
Explaining the Unexplained: Mysteries of the Paranormal
ISBN
0-297-78068-9
Sargent, Carl
ISBN
0-718-12244-5
ISBN
0-89281-219-2

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