A Critical Discourse Analysis of Public Perspectives of Parapsychology on Facebook Utilising Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement
Imagination, Cognition and Personality December 17, 2025 Claire Murphy-Morgan, Lesley-Ann Smith
Examining Facebook's role in public discourse about parapsychology is important when considering how science vs pseudoscience is widely understood. Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement is used to assess an existing Facebook thread led by the question ‘ is there any real evidence of psychic powers?’ 250 posted responses are examined for type . Critical Discourse Analysis applying scientific...