Richard Wiseman and Ciaran O'Keeffe

Psychology professor Gary E. Schwartz and his wife, psychologist Linda Russek, recently conducted groundbreaking scientific studies into the possibility of life after death. Actual scientific proof would be a major breakthrough in giving credibility to the paranormal world. It would mean there is finally hard evidence to back up years of claims of an afterlife.

However, scientific proof is not always definitive. In this case, Schwartz and his colleagues were met with much scrutiny from the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. Richard Wiseman and Ciaran O'Keeffe, both affiliated with the department of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in England, decided to in- vestigate Schwartz's study. Wiseman and O'Keeffe found that the study had too many flaws to be considered scientific. They found that Schwartz...