The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research entry in Robert Todd Carroll's Skeptic's Dictionary is a skeptical reference compilation's summary and critique of the PEAR laboratory's claimed mind-over-machine results. Carroll was a philosophy professor who built the Skeptic's Dictionary as a sustained critical reference work on paranormal and fringe claims, and the entry reflects that project's explicit critical orientation rather than a neutral survey. It is useful for the mainstream skeptical case against PEAR's claims specifically; cite it as that documented critical position, alongside PEAR's own publications and other reporting, rather than as the only word on the dispute.
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The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research entry in Robert Todd Carroll's Skeptic's Dictionary, the middle tier reflecting that it is a skeptical reference compilation's summary and critique from Carroll's sustained critical reference work on paranormal and fringe claims, useful for the mainstream skeptical case against PEAR's claims specifically, notwithstanding that the entry reflects that project's explicit critical orientation rather than a neutral survey, cited as that documented critical position alongside PEAR's own publications and other reporting rather than as the only word on the dispute. NotesThe Skeptic's Dictionary's own entry on the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research program; a skeptical reference compilation, not independent scholarly analysis.
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AuthorRobert Todd Carroll
PublisherSkepdic.com
URLhttps://www.skepdic.com/pear.html
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)
This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 1 critiqued Here. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Organizations, 2 claims: 1 critiqued Here, 1 general references.
- Psi Phenomena, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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