[News] Ghost Lusters: If You Want to See a Specter Badly Enough, Will You?

[Moontanman]

MICHAEL PERSINGER: Persinger has studied the potential role that electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and infrasound may plan in causing the perception that something is "haunted."

 

Ghost Lusters: If You Want to See a Specter Badly Enough, Will You?: Scientific American

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Persinger commends French's team on its "splendid experiment," even if it didn't validate his ideas. Still, he contends, EMFs do affect the body in many ways—from the brain to individual cells, to enzymes, and even DNA. The key to testing their effects on brain activity, he says, is to make sure that the fields are neither too strong nor too weak, and that they come in the right pattern. So he is not willing to give up on finding a way to prove scientifically that EMFs are behind at least some ghost sightings. "I'm a scientist," Persinger says. "I don't believe in anything."

 

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