Where Did the Road Go? Exploring the Fringe...

Worth a watch. Just fascinating

I'm watching his talk. There are more than a few red flags right off the top. I can't find any scientific papers in peer reviewed journals on his work... if you have any references, I'd be interested. Plus, he isn't an actual PhD qualified "doctor". As far as I can tell, he only has an honorary doctorate from the World Peace Centre in Pune, India.

From what I can gather, he is a biologist turned inventor. I tried quickly to find some peer reviewed stuff and found zilch but I will do a more thorough investigation this weekend. I did find a few articles that told a little about him and his work..one is from Nexus magazine www.scribd.com/doc/148755112/Harry-Oldfield-Nexus-Mag
Apparently he received his biology degree from Cambridge according to this Amazon page www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Brain-Harry-Old...-ebook/dp/B0058J01QQ
Personally, I have never really given a crap what my peers thought of my research...so maybe he didn't put papers up for peer review? I just don't know lol. I DO know that I can capture on "film" (aka digital camera) some of what he can, so it kind of backs up my research in a way. I know he worked with krilian photography and moved on from there and doesn't have to kill his specimens to view them under a scope..but can view their still beating heart using light without hurting them at all. I understand totally your skepticism and applaud it as it makes those of us who try and bring the Unseen into focus for those who cannot see, work a little harder to achieve that goal.
Let me know what you think after you look over the links I found and after the video. He's got some interesting concepts that's for sure. One thing, I don't believe in "ghosts" as they were once dead people, nor ghost cats or dogs...can't remember if he mentions some of that in that video, but he does in others. There's something there all right, but it's sure not grandma

I still can't find anything to suggest that Oldfield really earned a PhD. Nothing from his talk suggested he was doing clinical trials that would pass peer-review. One website had him listed as a homeopathic practitioner, which is quite different than practicing medicine. Kirlian photography from what I recall was basically just sending a bunch of electricity through whatever was being photographed, which makes for interesting photos that really don't have any applications for medical imaging. As for his new imaging technique, I thought it was bizarre that he got so excited about finding a benign tumor... that's one which doesn't cause any harm... and it wasn't part of a controlled clinical trial. He just frightened some poor woman with the word "tumor" into making her doctor check her out over and over again using traditional means until they found an extremely tiny benign tumor. So she was stressed out over nothing by an irresponsible man trying to sell people on his invention. All he demonstrated in that case was that his equipment is more likely to give false positives when it comes to diagnoses, which isn't a good thing at all.

There are ways to test to see if an unusual practice or technique has medical implications. I didn't see any evidence from his study that proper scientific controls were being used. He said himself that there were issues with replication.

In contrast, let's look at someone like Bill Bengston, who is known for Bengston Cycling as a possible method of healing. He does have an actual PhD and is a professor of sociology. He has written peer reviewed articles about his work. He doesn't diagnose "patients" with untested and unproven techniques and send them terrified to an MD thinking they have cancer. He is working on proper clinical trials of the technique he is investigating.

See the difference?

Maybe there is something worth investigating as far as Harry Oldfield's imaging techniques are concerned, but he just doesn't seem up to the task.

I'd be interested in learning more about your work, wyldflwr. Maybe you could post something about your own investigations?

I'm so sorry I've been remiss in responding here...life has a way of reaching up and slapping me in the face when I get too comfortable with how things are going and throws me about 9 curve balls in a row that I have to chose whether to dodge or to try and smack it out of the park. Lately, I've gotten a few fresh goose eggs upside the head lol. My work involves photography and light spectrum and the things usually Unseen but there none the less. I have made no money in my research, nor is that my goal really. I am not crazy nor do I have flights of fancy. On top of all of these things I can tell you I am no liar nor do I feel the need to make things up...the world is too full of wonder to have to make anything up or stretch the truth in any way shape or form. I know that anyone can say such things about themselves but the truth is always found in the consistency of one's experiences and stories over time.
I have asked, in the suggestion box, of this forum for a photo gallery or if one already exists that I be pointed the way there as that is where the bulk of my research will be found...if one has the eyes to see. I do not like to tell people what they should see in my photos as I want them to see what is there, not what they are expecting to see nor what they have been taught should be there. I feel we have been trained since we were little on shapes, colors and their meanings for several reasons....that there may have been a time when we could see these entities but were trained OUT of seeing them if that makes any sense. Do I have all the answers? Nope...just some of them.