Victor Zammit

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Victor James Zammit is an Australian writer and researcher into the paranormal. Formerly a lawyer of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and of the High Court of Australia, he is the author of A Lawyer Presents The Case For The Afterlife.^[1] His website presents an analysis of at least eleven different areas of proposed evidence for the afterlife, including mediumship, near-death experiences and reincarnation. It also contains a number of articles rebutting skeptical arguments against the afterlife and links to current research and conferences on the topic.

1 $1 million challenge
2 Christianity and Judaism
3 Articles
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] $1 million challenge

Victor organized sponsors to offer one million dollars to anyone who could rebut the existing empirical evidence for the afterlife. Conditions of the challenge were changed on 6th November 2006.^[2]

Zammit's challenge does not require a demonstration of a clearly defined paranormal ability in an unambiguous testing situation mutually agreed to, but rather convincing a committee of "people expert in afterlife evidence" to agree that their claimed evidence has been rebutted "beyond any doubt."

[edit] Christianity and Judaism

His website contains three open letters, to Pope Ratzinger^[3], Rev Dr Billy Graham^[4] and to Rabbi Boteach^[5]

[edit] Articles

Victor has published on his webpage a number of articles rebutting statements made by scientists including:

Prof R Dawkins [1]
Prof. Carl Sagan [2]
Critics of Sir William Crookes [3]
Critics of Electronic Voice Phenomena [4]
Professors who tested the skills of a Russian psychic [5]
Commentary on the claim that Near Death Experiences are simply physiological reactions of the dying brain. [6]
Commentary on "Why debunkers have lost credibility." [7]