K. M. Goldney
Kathleen Mary Hervey Goldney (1894–1992) best known as K. M. Goldney was a British parapsychologist and writer.
Career[edit]
In the 1940s, Goldney worked with the mathematician Samuel Soal on ESP experiments with Basil Shackleton. It later was discovered that Soal had altered and faked the data from the experiments.[1][2][3]
Goldney was once a member of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research and an associate of Harry Price.[4] She was a long-standing member of the Society for Psychical Research and worked as secretary from 1949 to 1957.[5]
In the 1950s, she produced a highly critical report with Eric Dingwall and Trevor H. Hall that demolished the claims of any hauntings and suspected Price's involvement with Borley Rectory to be fraudulent.[6][7]
In 1964, she came out against Trevor H. Hall, defending the chemist William Crookes from allegations of misconduct with the medium Florence Cook.[8]
Publications[edit]
- Samuel Soal and K. M. Goldney. (1943). Experiments in Precognitive Telepathy. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 47: 21-150.
- Eric J. Dingwall, K. M. Goldney and Trevor H. Hall. (1956). The Haunting of Borley Rectory: A Critical Survey of the Evidence. Duckworth.
- R. G. Medhurst and K. M. Goldney. (1964). William Crookes and the Physical Phenomena of Mediumship. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 54: 25-156.
- R. G. Medhurst and K. M. Goldney. (1972). Crookes and the Spirit World. Souvenir Press.[9]
- K. M. Goldney. (1974). The Soal-Goldney Experiments with Basil Shackleton (BS): A Personal Account. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 56: 73-82.
References[edit]
- ^ Markwick, Betty. (1985). The Establishment of Data Manipulation in the Soal-Shackleton Experiments. In Paul Kurtz. A Skeptic’s Handbook of Parapsychology. Prometheus Books. pp. 287-312. ISBN 0-87975-300-5
- ^ Reznek, Lawrie. (2010). Delusions and the Madness of the Masses. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 54-55. ISBN 978-1-4422-0605-2
- ^ "Soal-Goldney Experiment". The Skeptic's Dictionary.
- ^ Wood, Robert. (1992). The Widow of Borley: A Psychical Investigation. Duckworth. p. 54
- ^ Shepard, Leslie. (1991). Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Gale Research. p. 678
- ^ Hansel, C. E. M. (1980). ESP and Parapsychology: A Critical Re-evaluation. Prometheus Books. p. 302
- ^ Hines, Terence. (2003). Pseudoscience and the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. p. 95. ISBN 1-57392-979-4 "Dingwall, Goldney, and Hall (1956) demolish the claim that Borley Rectory was ever haunted. They find, by comparing reports in Price's books to the actual statements that witnesses made to Price — which are still preserved — that Price distorted and embellished reports to make them much more dramatic than they actually were."
- ^ Brock, William Hodson. (2008). William Crookes (1832-1919) and the Commercialization of Science. Ashgate Publishing. pp. 184-185. ISBN 978-0-7546-6322-5
- ^ Dixon, Bernard. (1972). "Crookes and the Spirit World". New Scientist. 30 November. pp. 532-533
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