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Katharine Beals's avatar

I've tracked down the "100 studies" to a 2014 article by Cardinal and Falvey that merely asserts this without attribution. Requests to the Cardinal and Falvey for a citation have gone unanswered. I've corresponded with Becca Cramer and she's admitted that she didn't actually find over 100 studies and that this was mere hearsay (it's become a powerful meme in the FC/Telepathy World). Ms. Cramer has fixed her "I found over 100 studies" lines in her Medium and Substack posts, but we still hear her confidence voice asserting this on the Telepathy Tapes Talk Tracks--which continues to seriously damage her credibility.

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Jerry Coe's avatar

"But privately, she seems completely unwilling to even talk to anyone who doesn’t agree with her conclusions."

For an example of this, check out the Talk Tracks episode with "skeptic" ringer Becca Cramer, who "tried to debunk the tapes and couldn't" ... well, she didn't try very hard! They spend most of the episode trying to make cueing/prompting sound as out there and convoluted as possible, basically turning the debate on its head and saying if you can't disprove that FC fails message passing tests ~because~ of telepathy, then you must accept that as the explanation.

Cramer also references a supposed "100 papers" supporting FC, which is a number advocates often claim but have never actually listed or sourced, telling me she's fully locked into the spelling/facilitated communication bubble just like Ky Dickens.

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