Coventry University in the UK is now offering a two-year Master of Science degree in parapsychology. Psychology professor Tony Lawrence, director of the new program, says the students will investigate strange phenomena ranging from ghostly hauntings to ESP through "an honest, open systematic examination of the evidence." From the BBC News:
Dr Lawrence said: "We've got to look at what people are experiencing.
"No one has bothered to look, so people's view of the world has been divided into two components: the secular and humanist, and the religious.
"We've got to look at the middle ground, otherwise all you have is Richard Dawkins (professor of the public understanding of science at Oxford University) or the Pope.
"Both have probably not quite got their finger on the real pulse. People out there are having interesting experiences and no one is really following them up.
