Gary Schwartz

For other people named Gary Schwartz, see Gary Schwartz (disambiguation).
Gary E. Schwartz
BornJune 14, 1944
Mineola, New York
OccupationParapsychologist

Gary E. Schwartz is an American psychologist, author, parapsychologist[1][2] and professor at the University of Arizona and the director of its Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health.[3] Schwartz researches the veracity of mediums and energy healing.[4][5] His mediumship experiments have been described as flawed by critics who have argued that they failed to use adequate precautions against fraud and sensory leakage, relied on non-standardized, untested dependent variables and unaccounted for researcher degrees of freedom.[1][2][6]

  1. ^ a b Hyman, Ray (May 2003). "How Not to Test Mediums: Critiquing the Afterlife Experiments". Skeptical Inquirer. pp. 20–30. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  2. ^ a b Carroll, Robert Todd (2007). "Gary Schwartz's Subjective Evaluation of Mediums: Veritas or Wishful Thinking?". Skeptic’s Dictionary. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
  3. ^ "Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health: Lab Members". Department of Psychology. Archived from the original on November 18, 2017. Retrieved May 11, 2015.[non-primary source needed]
  4. ^ Dotinga, Randy. "Academia Embraces Spooky Studies". 10.11.05. Wired. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  5. ^ Harriet A. Hall (March 2008). "Gary Schwartz's Energy Healing Experiments: The Emperor's New Clothes?" (PDF). Skeptical Inquirer. 32 (2). Committee for Skeptical Inquiry: 48–51. ISSN 0194-6730. Wikidata Q117083351.
  6. ^ Battista, Christian; Gauvrit, Nicolas; LeBel, Etienne. (2015). Madness in the Method: Fatal Flaws in Recent Mediumship Experiments. In Keith Augustine & Michael Martin. The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 615-630