Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics, on Survival After Death and Paranormal spiritual abilities

There's something of a tragedy today in that because we're a materialistic society and because this subject has been poo-pooed so much and doesn't form an acceptable part of the scientific world, then people who feel themselves to have some extraordinary ability and power would tend to conceal it and not develop it rather than do something with it. So, the supply of such mediums has sort of dried up. But it doesn't mean they're not there, it means they're not doing anything with their abilities, they're concealing them.

Who would have guessed that Abrupt Global Warming physicist Peter Wadhams was an expert on paranormal physics studies?

an interview with him.

 W: In a way, I suppose there's an advantage in being in a place like Cambridge, because it does have a tradition of people in it being interested in psychical research because it was where the Society for Psychical Research itself was founded - in 1882. Most of the people who founded it were scientists from Cambridge. So, it has a tradition of at least tolerating people who do psychical research, whereas in many academic institutions, people like ??? are not even tolerated. They're forced out by a sort of inquisition, I suppose.