Talk:Joseph Banks Rhine

Missing Biographical Details

In 1974 there was an incident regarding Dr. Levy, in which Dr. Rhine made a announcement. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944971,00.html This article contains the details. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.104.226.233 (talk) 19:46, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

You have to buy a subscription to Time magazine to read this article. The teaser-introduction states that "Last week a shaken Rhine was preparing to acknowledge publicly a scandal that has already rocked the entire psychic establishment." The article is dated August 20, 1974. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nevillemacl (talk • contribs) 01:49, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

More informed assessment needed

The section on criticisms seems very poorly informed. Are no readers aware of the horror Rhine experienced when he discovered the cheating of Levy? This is a well-documented case and seems quite inconsistent with the implications of what is written in the section headed "Criticisms". There certainly have been criticisms of Rhine - from those who consider Zener cards too dry, or who long for parapsychology to get ready for "The Big Stuff", but I would like to see more informed section. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:11, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Biographical timeline

• 1895, Sept. 29: Born, Waterloo, Juniata County, Pennsylvania.
• ca. 1915-1917 Attended Ohio Northern University and the College of Wooster as a preministerial student.
• 1919 Discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps.
• 1920 Married Louisa Ella Weckesser.
• 1922 Bachelor of Science in botany, University of Chicago.
• 1923 Master of Science in botany, University of Chicago.
• 1923-24 Research fellow in plant physiology at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Yonkers, New York.
• 1924-26 Taught plant physiology, West Virginia University in Morgantown.
• 1925 Ph.D. in botany, University of Chicago.
• 1926-27 Worked with Dr. Franklin Prince at the Boston Society for Psychical Research.
• 1927 Came to Duke University to work with Dr. William McDougall, who had just been named head of the Psychology Dept.
• 1928 Offered an instructorship in philosophy and psychology at Duke with understanding he could do psychical research as well.
• 1930 Under sponsorship of McDougall, founded Parapsychology Laboratory which at first was part of Duke Psychology Department.
• 1933-34 Ran tests on subjects to examine if they could move a deck of "ESP" cards with their minds alone.
• 1934 Published Extra-Sensory Perception.
• ca. 1935 Laboratory was set apart from the Dept. of Psychology, given some financial support and became known as the Parapsychology Laboratory of Duke University.
• 1937 Launched the Journal of Parapsychology.
• 1962 Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man was established under Rhine's guidance.
• 1965 Retired from Duke and the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory was transferred into the Institute of Parapsychology under the sponsorship of the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man.
• 1980, Feb. 20: Died, Hillsborough, North Carolina

50.75.232.66 (talk) 21:06, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Skeptic bias

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The page is biased by skeptics. Please see my work here which was deleted by Wikipedia [1] Rhine defender (talk) 14:34, 4 February 2018 (UTC) It was deleted because you inserted commentary into the article - use the talkpage to propose article improvement, and please keep it short and concise. It didn't show up in the published version because the change had to be approved by another editor - this article is under pending changes protection, but since your edit was inappropriate for article space I've reverted it. Acroterion (talk) 14:37, 4 February 2018 (UTC) Two sockpuppet accounts blocked. Acroterion (talk) 17:40, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Fraud - Walter J. Levy

there's no mention of W L.'s fraud ? Lewoaz (talk) 15:36, 20 July 2022 (UTC)