K. M. Goldney

Kathleen Mary Hervey Goldney (1894–1992) best known as K. M. Goldney was a British parapsychologist and writer.

Career

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

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Reznek, Lawrie. (2010). Delusions and the Madness of the Masses. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 54-55. ISBN 978-1-4422-0605-2
  3. ^ "Soal-Goldney Experiment". The Skeptic's Dictionary.
  4. ^ Wood, Robert. (1992). The Widow of Borley: A Psychical Investigation. Duckworth. p. 54
  5. ^ Shepard, Leslie. (1991). Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Gale Research. p. 678
  6. ^ Hansel, C. E. M. (1980). ESP and Parapsychology: A Critical Re-evaluation. Prometheus Books. p. 302
  7. ^ 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."
  8. ^ Brock, William Hodson. (2008). William Crookes (1832-1919) and the Commercialization of Science. Ashgate Publishing. pp. 184-185. ISBN 978-0-7546-6322-5
  9. ^ Dixon, Bernard. (1972). "Crookes and the Spirit World". New Scientist. 30 November. pp. 532-533

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