Discovery Lab Answers

The sources retrieved for this question include only a single passage from West ^[1] — a 2008 tribute he wrote to Ian Stevenson, published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration. That piece is biographical and testimonial in character; it does not report experimental data, protocol details, or statistical results. From it, a few things can be established:

• West is identified as Emeritus Professor of Clinical Criminology, Cambridge University ^[1].
• The tribute demonstrates his long-standing engagement with parapsychological scholarship and his respect for Stevenson’s research program, particularly the Division of Perceptual Studies ^[1].

What the retrieved sources do not cover

West had a substantial career as an experimentalist in parapsychology — most notably his early card-guessing and telepathy experiments at Cambridge and his work with the Society for Psychical Research — but none of that experimental record is present in the passages retrieved for this question. Reporting specific effect sizes, trial counts, p-values, hit rates, or protocol details from those studies without a grounded source would violate the site’s core no-fabrication policy, so those figures are not stated here.

Contextual note (general background, not from the ESP-Nexus library)

West is widely known in the parapsychology literature as a researcher who combined productive experimental work with persistent methodological skepticism about the field’s claims — a combination that made his assessments unusually influential. His connection to Bernard J. Carr is documented on the ESP-Nexus site: Carr encountered West through the Cambridge University Society for Psychical Research, and West advised him to establish himself in conventional physics before pursuing parapsychology professionally. That biographical detail is drawn from the ESP-Nexus Bernard J. Carr page, not from a numbered primary source.

What to do if you need the experimental record

If you are looking for West’s specific experimental findings — his ganzfeld or card-guessing results, methodology critiques, or meta-analytic contributions — the retrieved excerpts do not carry them. The full text of his published papers would be the correct source; the Journal of Parapsychology and Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research are the primary venues where his experimental work appeared. If ESP-Nexus expands its coverage of West’s experimental output, a dedicated study-audit page or scientist hub would be the place to find it at https://esp-nexus.org/studies/ or https://esp-nexus.org/scientists/.