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Telepathy…what’s the evidence? – podcast

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58% Informative

A podcast promoting claims that non-verbal autistic children can read minds briefly knocked Joe Rogan off the top of the charts this month , which made the Science Weekly team wonder, how has science attempted to prove or disprove the existence of mind reading? To find out, Ian Sample speaks to Chris French , emeritus professor of parapsychology at Goldsmiths University . They discuss how scientists have tested this phenomenon, what else could be behind the apparent ability of some people to read minds, and why the idea is still so popular.

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39

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60

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formal

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English

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55

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