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After Vasiliev"s main experiments were completed, his laboratory staff made an official statement declaring "We have not established whether telepathy exists.
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Leonid Vasiliev
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He worked as a professor of physiology at Leningrad University. He helped establish the first parapsychology laboratory at Leningrad. Vasiliev conducted experiments with subjects into telepathy and reported successful results.
However, his experiments were never replicated and have been criticized for weak controls.
We want to find out. Then we can say yes or northern" His research was discontinued. The psychologist C. East. M. Hansel has criticized Vasiliev"s experiments, stating that he "made little attempt to control the human factor in his experiments.. insufficient information is given in Vasiliev"s book about the precise conditions under which his experiments were carried out.
The chief weakness lies in the lack of precautions against errors in recording and against the experimenter being affected by what he knows about the experiment."
Vasiliev"s book Experiments in Mental Suggestion was translated into English in 1963 and was popular with Western parapsychologists.
