 Braude is a past president of the Parapsychological Association, and the Editor-in-Chief for the "Journal of Scientific Exploration".Braude is a researcher in psychic phenomena; his work has therefore been called pseudoscience.Philosophers Ronald Giere and Patrick Grim have praised Braude's work in philosophy but have written his parapsychological claims about psychokinesis being scientifically proven are based on assumption, not scientific evidence.