Hunting the Paranormal "Objectively"

So here is an interesting story about clinical psychologist Thomas Rabeyron, a very diligent bloke, who really wants to get to the bottom of all this paranormal stuff.

It's a good case study for my point of view, because while his intentions are there, he's still gonna try to shoe horn alternate realities into a scientific, "objective" study.


His big complaint is that the phenomena all seems to vanish when he studies it "objectively":

"All we know is that in similar experiments, whenever the cameras were around, the occupants were more comfortable and the phenomena came to an end."

I propose that it's not the camera's that inhibit observation of the activity, but the attitude of the researchers. Note how he's already limited the possible explanations, and has discounted his own contribution in all of them:

"The only explanations for this would be that the occupants were faking it and didn't want to be caught out, that there was some kind of psychological explanation that was canceled out by the presence of the cameras, or that the phenomenon was caused by a real poltergeist that didn't want to be caught on film."

Its funny how scientists keep holding to the premise that something can be viewed objectively, even though science itself has proven that the act of observing changes the results.

Assume for a moment that its this researcher's own biases that are limiting his ability to observe the phenomena, what do you think he could do to be successful?