Dr. Steven Novella Dead Wrong on Near-Death Experience Research

May 13, 2010 - PRLog -- Join Skeptiko host Alex Tsakiris for the first in a two-part series with Yale University Neurologist, Dr. Steven Novella.  The shows examine whether near-death experiences are best explained by conventional medical science.  Novella, host of The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe, recently stated that research into the near-death experience phenomena is, "triangulating on the fact that this is probably a brain experience". But, according to Skeptiko host Alex Tsakiris, "Dr. Novella isn't just a little bit wrong, he's completely as odds with the large body of published research on near-death experience… the science of researchers we've interviewed like, Dr. Jeffrey Long, Dr. Peter Fenwick, Dr. Penny Sartori and others like Dr. Bruce Greyson and Dr. Sam Parnia and Dr. Michael Sabom, Dr. Pim Van Lommel, and many, many others all point in the opposite direction."

The show also examines Dr. Novella's recent analysis of research linking the CO2 blood levels in cardiac arrest patients with the near-death experience.   According to Tsakiris, "Dr. Novella's statements seem to contradict the very research he's reporting on…his conclusions are also significantly different from the authors of the study."

The second part of this broadcast, including an interview with Dr. Novella's, is scheduled for June 2010.
The complete Skeptiko broadcast (audio and transcript) is available at: http://www.skeptiko.com/

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