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Climate Wars Science and Its Disputers Oprah's Gullibility How
SI M/A 2010 Cover V1:SI JF 10 V1 1/22/10 12:59 PM Page 1 MARTIN GARDNER ON JAMES ARTHUR RAY | JOE NICKELL ON JOHN EDWARD | 16 NEW CSI FELLOWS THE MAG A ZINE FOR SCI ENCE AND REA SON Vol ume 34, No. 2 • March / April 2010 • INTRODUCTORY PRICE U.S. and Canada $4.95 Climate Wars Science and Its Disputers Oprah’s Gullibility How Should Skeptics Deal with Cranks? Why Witchcraft Persists SI March April 2010 pgs_SI J A 2009 1/22/10 4:19 PM Page 2 Formerly the Committee For the SCientiFiC inveStigation oF ClaimS oF the Paranormal (CSiCoP) at the Cen ter For in quiry/tranSnational A Paul Kurtz, Founder and Chairman Emeritus Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow Richard Schroeder, Chairman Massimo Polidoro, Research Fellow Ronald A. Lindsay, President and CEO Benjamin Radford, Research Fellow Bar ry Karr, Ex ec u tive Di rect or Richard Wiseman, Research Fellow James E. Al cock, psy chol o gist, York Univ., Tor on to David J. Helfand, professor of astronomy, John Pau los, math e ma ti cian, Tem ple Univ. Mar cia An gell, M.D., former ed i tor-in-chief, New Columbia Univ. Stev en Pink er, cog ni tive sci en tist, Harvard Eng land Jour nal of Med i cine Doug las R. Hof stad ter, pro fes sor of hu man un der - Mas si mo Pol id oro, sci ence writer, au thor, Steph en Bar rett, M.D., psy chi a trist, au thor, stand ing and cog ni tive sci ence, In di ana Univ. -
WHAT DO WE BELIEVE? a New Gallup Poll
Vol.15. No. 2 /Winter 1991 $6.25 WHAT DO WE BELIEVE? A New Gallup Poll *-. • Gerard Piel on Science & Self-Government Illness|Hysteria/ The Barnum Effect Personality Test#/ Prayer / Clairvoyance Published by the Comm THE SKEPTICAL INQUIRER is the official journal of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. Editor Kendrick Frazier. Editorial Board James E. Alcock, Martin Gardner, Ray Hyman, Philip J. Klass, Paul Kurtz, James Randi. Consulting Editors Isaac Asimov, William Sims Bainbridge, John R. Cole, Kenneth L. Feder, C. E. M. Hansel, E. C. Krupp, David F. Marks, Andrew Neher, James E. Oberg, Robert Sheaffer, Steven N. Shore. Managing Editor Doris Hawley Doyle. Contributing Editor Lys Ann Shore. Business Manager Mary Rose Hays. Assistant Editor Andrea Szalanski. Art Valerie Ferenti-Cognetto. Chief Data Officer Richard Seymour. Computer Assistant Michael Cione. Typesetting Paul E. Loynes. Audio Technician Vance Vigrass. Librarian, Ranjit Sandhu. Staff Lynda Harwood (Asst. Public Relations Director), Leland Harrington, Sandra Lesniak, Alfreda Pidgeon, Kathy Reeves. Cartoonist Rob Pudim. The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal Paul Kurtz, Chairman; philosopher, State University of New York at Buffalo. Barry Karr, Executive Director and Public Relations Director. Lee Nisbet, Special Projects Director. Fellows of the Committee (partial list) James E. Alcock, psychologist, York Univ., Toronto; Isaac Asimov, biochemist, author; Irving Biedennan, psychologist. University of Minnesota; Susan Blackmore, psychologist. Brain Perception Laboratory, University of Bristol, England; Henri Broch, physicist, University of Nice, France; Mario Bunge, philosopher, McGill University; John R. Cole, anthropologist, Institute for the Study of Human Issues; F. H. -
Laufende Zeitschriften Am IGPP Stand Dezember 2018
1 Laufende Zeitschriften am IGPP Stand Dezember 2018 1. Z1265 Abraxas 2. Z2265-Spec. Abraxas special issue 3. A1PARA6 Advances in parapsychological research 4. Z881a The AIPR news, Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research 5. Z965 Akademiezeitschrift 6. Z1240 Aladin 7. UZ1248 Aliter 8. Z88 The American dowser, The American Society of Dowsers, Inc. 9. Z353 Anomaly, journal of research into the paranormal 10. Z619 Anthropology of consciousness, Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness. 11. A1PARA17 Aquém e além do cérebro, ... simpósio da Fundação Bial 12. Z327a Aries, journal for the study of Western esotericism, ed. by the Chair for 'History of 13. Z351 Astrologie heute, Zeitschrift für Astrologie, Psychologie und Zukunftsthemen 14. Z881 Australian journal of parapsychology, Australian Institute of Parapsychological 15. Z696 Bewusstseinswissenschaften, Transpersonale Psychologie und Psychotherapie 16. Z1250 Beyond borderlands 17. A1IGPP2a Biennial report / IGPP 18. Z354 Bilk, a newsletter for water-monster-sightings 19. Z1335 Bruno Gröning 20. Z694 Caduceus, healing into wholeness (bis Nr. 99) 21. Z165a Cayce quarterly 22. Z667a Centre for Fortean Zoology Yearbook 23. Z192 The Christian parapsychologist, a quarterly journal 24. Z257 Comunicaciones de parapsicología, revista internacional de parapsicología 25. Z905 Conspiracy journal 26. Z249 Correlation, journal of research in astrology, Astrological Association 27. Z1245 Correspondences 28. A1KORN2 Crop circle yearbook 29. Z306 Curare, Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie 30. Z1163 Darklore 31. Z660 DEGUGO Jahrbuch 32. Z151 Dowsing today, the journal of the British Society of Dowsers 33. Z473a E-boletín Psi 34. Z1089 EdgeScience: current research and insights 35. UZ56 Erbe und Auftrag, benediktinische Zeitschrift; monastische Welt 36. Z1025 Esoterica: the journal of esoteric studies 37. -
Organisations Sectaires Nuisibles (C.I.A.O.S.N.) Concernant La Maharishi Global Financing Research Foundation / Méditation Transcendantale
AVIS DU C ENTRE D’INFORMATION ET D’AVIS SUR LES ORGANISATIONS SECTAIRES NUISIBLES (C.I.A.O.S.N.) CONCERNANT LA MAHARISHI GLOBAL FINANCING RESEARCH FOUNDATION / MÉDITATION TRANSCENDANTALE Bruxelles, le 12 octobre 2009 Loi du 2 juin 1998 portant création d’un Centre d’Information et d’Avis sur les Organisations Sectaires Nuisibles et d’une Cellule administrative de coordination de la lutte contre les organisations sectaires nuisibles Art. 6. § 1er. Le Centre est chargé des missions suivantes : (…) 4° formuler soit d'initiative, soit à la demande de toute autorité publique des avis et des recommandations sur le phénomène des organisations sectaires nuisibles et en particulier sur la politique en matière de lutte contre ces organisations 0 TABLE DES MATIERES 1. EXPOSÉ DE LA PROCÉDURE / ETAPES CHRONOLOGIQUES DU TRAITEMENT DU DOSSIER 2 2. DONNEES SUR LES ACTIVITES DU MOUVEMENT DE MAHARISHI : PHASE DESCRIPTIVE 5 2.1 MAHARISHI GLOBAL FINANCING RESEARCH FOUNDATION 5 2.2 MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI 6 2.2.1 APERÇU BIOGRAPHIQUE 6 2.2.2 STATUT 7 2.3 INTERNATIONALISATION DU MOUVEMENT DE MAHARISHI 8 2.3.1 INTERNATIONALISATION 8 2.3.2 INSTITUTIONNALISATION - EVOLUTION 9 2.4 MEDITATION TRANSCENDANTALE : LA TECHNIQUE DE BASE 10 2.4.1 PRINCIPES D'UN SYSTEME DE PENSEE 10 2.4.2 PRATIQUE 12 2.4.3 EFFETS ESCOMPTES DE LA PRATIQUE - SCIENTIFICITE 15 2.5 AFFILIATION AU MOUVEMENT 18 2.6 PROGRAMME MT-SIDHI – VOL YOGIQUE 20 2.7 STRUCTURE DU MOUVEMENT : THE GLOBAL COUNTRY OF WORLD PEACE – LE PAYS MONDIAL DE LA PAIX SUR TERRE 20 2.8 MINISTERE DE LA RECONSTRUCTION GLOBALE : ARCHITECTURE MAHARISHI STHAPATYA VEDA 23 2.9 AUTRES DOMAINES DE LA SCIENCE VEDIQUE DE MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI 24 2.9.1 MAHARISHI AYURVEDA 24 2.9.2 EDUCATION FONDEE SUR LA CONSCIENCE 27 2.9.3 OBJECTIF D'UNE PAIX MONDIALE DURABLE ET ELIMINATION DE LA PAUVRETE 31 2.9.3.A UNITE MONETAIRE 31 2.9.3.B PARTI DE LA LOI NATURELLE 32 2.9.3.C BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI TRUST 33 3. -
Genezing, Gezondheid En Voeding
Aanmaak: zaterdag 26 november 2011, Renger Dijkstra, Theosofische Bibliotheek Amsterdam A Mission of Healing In: The Theosophist : a monthly journal devoted to oriental philosophy, art, literature and occultism: vol. 44 (1923), (March), p. 591. Col Olcott's Health improved - Report In: The Path 1886-1896 NY, WQ Judge: vol. 3 (1888), (June), p. 104. correspondence - The Case Against Mental & Spiritual Healing In: The Theosophist : a monthly journal devoted to oriental philosophy, art, literature and occultism: vol. 45 (1924), (April), p. 118. Health and Diet In: Theosophy in New Zealand 1908 - continuing: vol. 15 (1917), (September), p. 182. Health of Mdme Blavatsky improved - Report In: The Path 1886-1896 NY, WQ Judge: vol. 4 (1890), (March), p. 389. Health: HPB on In: The Eclectic Theosophist 1971 - 1995 San Diego, Calif., W Emmett Small, Helen Todd: (1983), (May_June), p. 6. How can Christian Science heal with thought? In: Extracts from the Vahan 1891-1904, London, Sarah Corbett: (1902), p. 240. In the Service of the Great Healer In: The Herald of the Star : official organ of The Order of the Star in the East: vol. 5 (1916), (May), p. 233. Ltte - Healing in the Joanna Southcott Movement In: The Herald of the Star : official organ of The Order of the Star in the East: vol. 13 (1924), (December), p. 536. Restoration of Health of Col Olcott - Report (Europe) In: The Path 1886-1896 NY, WQ Judge: vol. 6 (1891), (August), p. 164. review - `The Path of Healing` by HK Challoner In: Theosophy in Australia (3) y1936 i3 June p1 - y2009 v73 i2 June p65: vol. -
Teach Children All the Facts About Their Religion
BLACKMORE ON MEMES • BURIED ALIVE! • HOUDINI EXPOSES FRAUDS THE MAGMAG A ZINE FOR SCI ENCE AND REA SON Vol ume 32, No. 2 • March/April 2008 • INTRODUCTORY PRICE U.S. and Canada $4.95 Let’s Cool It on Global Warming Bjorn Lomborg Gary Schwartz’s ‘Energy Healing’ Harriet Hall Largest Test of Astrology Kendrick Frazier David Voas Paul Kurtz Martin Gardner on The Physics of Christianity Pub lished by the Commit tee for Skeptical Inquiry COM MIT TEE FOR SKEPTICAL INQUIRY FORMERLY THE COMMITTEE FOR THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CLAIMS OF THE PARANORMAL (CSICOP) AT THE CENTER FOR IN QUIRY/TRANSNATIONAL (AD JA CENT TO THE STATE UNI VER SI TY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFA LO NORTH CAMPUS) AN IN TER NA TION AL OR GAN I ZA TION Paul Kurtz, Chair man; pro fes sor emer i tus of phi los o phy, State University of New York at Buffa lo Bar ry Karr, Ex ec u tive Di rect or Joe Nick ell, Sen ior Re search Fel low Mas si mo Pol id oro, Re search Fel low Rich ard Wis e man, Re search Fel low Lee Nis bet, Spe cial Pro jects Di rect or FEL LOWS James E. Al cock,* psy chol o gist, York Univ., Tor- Con sult ants, New York, N.Y. Irm gard Oe pen, pro fes sor of med i cine (re tired), on to Sus an Haack, Coop er Sen ior Schol ar in Arts Mar burg, Ger ma ny Mar cia An gell, M.D., former edi tor-in-chief, New and Sci en ces, professor of philos o phy and Lor en Pan kratz, psy chol o gist, Or e gon Health Eng land Jour nal of Med i cine professor of Law, Univer si ty of Mi ami Sci en ces Univ. -
Multicultural Pseudoscience 1991 CSICOP Conference Classical Debunkers Science and Common Sense Spook Hill Illusion
SKEPTICAL INQUIRER Vol. 16, No. 1 FdlM991/$6.25 NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES In or Out of the Body? Multicultural Pseudoscience 1991 CSICOP Conference Classical Debunkers Science and Common Sense Spook Hill Illusion Published by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal THE SKEPTICAL INQUIRER is the official journal of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. Editor Kendrick Frazier. Editorial Board James E. Alcock, Martin Gardner, Ray Hyman, Philip J. Klass, Paul Kurtz. Consulting Editors Isaac Asimov, William Sims Bainbridge, John R. Cole, Kenneth L. Feder, C. E. M. Hansel, E. C. Krupp, David F. Marks, Andrew Neher, James E. Oberg, Robert Sheaffer, Steven N. Shore. Managing Editor Doris Hawley Doyle. Contributing Editor Lys Ann Shore. Business Manager Mary Rose Hays. Art Valerie Ferenti-Cognetto. Chief Data Officer Richard Seymour. Computer Assistant Michael Cione. Typesetting Paul E. Loynes. Audio Technician Vance Vigrass. Librarian, Ranjit Sandhu. Staff Lynda Harwood (Asst. Public Relations Director), Leland Harrington, Sandra Lesniak, Alfreda Pidgeon, Kathy Reeves. Cartoonist Rob Pudim. The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal Paul Kurtz, Chairman; philosopher, State University of New York at Buffalo. Barry Karr, Executive Director and Public Relations Director. Lee Nisbet, Special Projects Director. Fellows of the Committee (partial list) lames E. Alcock, psychologist, York Univ., Toronto; Isaac Asimov, biochemist, author; Robert A. Baker, psychologist, Univ. of Kentucky; Irving Biederman, psychologist. University of Minnesota; Susan Blackmore, psychologist. Brain Perception Laboratory, University of Bristol, England; Henri Broch, physicist. University of Nice, France; Mario Bunge, philosopher, McGill University; John R. -
1 Near-Death Experiences: in Or out of the Body?
1 Near-Death Experiences: In or out of the body? Susan Blackmore Published in Skeptical Inquirer 1991, 16, 34-45 What is it like to die? Although most of us fear death to a greater or lesser extent, there are now more and more people who have "come back" from states close to death and have told stories of usually very pleasant and even joyful experiences at death’s door. For many experiencers, their adventures seem unquestionably to provide evidence for life after death, and the profound effects the experience can have on them is just added confirmation. By contrast, for many scientists these experiences are just hallucinations produced by the dying brain and of no more interest than an especially vivid dream. So which is right? Are near-death experiences (NDEs) the prelude to our life after death or the very last experience we have before oblivion? I shall argue that neither is quite right: NDEs provide no evidence for life after death, and we can best understand them by looking at neurochemistry, physiology, and psychology; but they are much more interesting than any dream. They seem completely real and can transform people’s lives. Any satisfactory theory has to understand that too—and that leads us to questions about minds, selves, and the nature of consciousness. Deathbed Experiences Toward the end of the last century the physical sciences and the new theory of evolution were making great progress, but many people felt that science was forcing out the traditional ideas of the spirit and soul. Spiritualism began to flourish, and people flocked to mediums to get in contact with their dead friends and relatives "on the other side." Spiritualists claimed, and indeed still claim, to have found proof of survival. -
University of Groningen Genealogies of Shamanism Boekhoven, J.W
University of Groningen Genealogies of shamanism Boekhoven, J.W. IMPORTANT NOTE: You are advised to consult the publisher's version (publisher's PDF) if you wish to cite from it. Please check the document version below. Document Version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Publication date: 2011 Link to publication in University of Groningen/UMCG research database Citation for published version (APA): Boekhoven, J. W. (2011). Genealogies of shamanism: Struggles for power, charisma and authority. s.n. Copyright Other than for strictly personal use, it is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Take-down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Downloaded from the University of Groningen/UMCG research database (Pure): http://www.rug.nl/research/portal. For technical reasons the number of authors shown on this cover page is limited to 10 maximum. Download date: 27-09-2021 8 A Case Study: Shamanisms in the Netherlands The Netherlands witnessed the first public non-scholarly Dutch reflections on sha- manism in 1973. In that year a Dutch elite readership was introduced to the liter- ary interpretation of shamanism as published by the poet and novelist H.C. ten Berge. Reflecting on the increasing bureaucratisation and consumerism of that decade, he used Inuit poetry to compose his volume of poems De Witte Sjamaan (The White Shaman). -
University of Groningen Genealogies of Shamanism Boekhoven, J.W
University of Groningen Genealogies of shamanism Boekhoven, J.W. IMPORTANT NOTE: You are advised to consult the publisher's version (publisher's PDF) if you wish to cite from it. Please check the document version below. Document Version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Publication date: 2011 Link to publication in University of Groningen/UMCG research database Citation for published version (APA): Boekhoven, J. W. (2011). Genealogies of shamanism: Struggles for power, charisma and authority. s.n. Copyright Other than for strictly personal use, it is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). The publication may also be distributed here under the terms of Article 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act, indicated by the “Taverne” license. More information can be found on the University of Groningen website: https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/self-archiving-pure/taverne- amendment. Take-down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Downloaded from the University of Groningen/UMCG research database (Pure): http://www.rug.nl/research/portal. For technical reasons the number of authors shown on this cover page is limited to 10 maximum. Download date: 30-09-2021 Genealogies of Shamanism Struggles for Power, Charisma and Authority Cover photograph: Petra Giesbergen (Altaiskaya Byelka), courtesy of Petra Giesbergen (Altaiskaya Byelka) Cover design: Coltsfootmedia, Nynke Tiekstra, Noordwolde Book design: Barkhuis ISBN 9789077922880 © Copyright 2011 Jeroen Wim Boekhoven All rights reserved. -
Richard Monvoisin Ce Dossier a Été Réalisé Pour L’Observatoire Zététique À L’Automne 2004
Richard Monvoisin www.observatoire-zetetique.org Ce dossier a été réalisé pour l’Observatoire Zététique à l’automne 2004. Sa première version, de même titre, est disponible sous forme de brochure sur : - le site du laboratoire de zététique de l’Université de Nice, France, Rubrique Médecines magiques : www.unice.fr/ zetetique/articles/index.html#medecines, - le site Infokiosques : http://infokiosques.net/spip.php?article=212. Il a fait l’objet de plusieurs articles : - dans les Annales Pharmacologiques Françaises : Pseudo-thérapie - Élixirs fl oraux de Bach: étude zététique : Critique des concepts pseudo-scientifi ques, pseudo-médicaux et des postures philosophiques induites par la théorie du Dr Bach (Bach fl ower remedies : a critic of the pseudoscientifi c, pseudomedicinal concepts and philosophical postures inducted by Dr Bach theory). Abstracts: - sur PubMed : http://minilien.com/?nFCjp8kvT4, - sur INIST CNRS : http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=affi cheN&cpsidt=17254651. - dans la Revue Sciences & Pseudosciences de l’Association Française pour l’Information Scientifi que (AFIS) : Monvoisin R., Fleurs de Bach : une action avérée sur l’esprit critique, SPS, n° 273, juillet-août 2006 (version un peu tronquée en ligne : www.pseudo-sciences.org/spip.php?article590, - dans la revue Skepter : Monvoisin R., Moralisme en bloesemkracht, Edward Bach en zijn remedies, 19(3), 34-37, herfst, 2006. (disponible sur : www.skepsis.nl/bachbloesemremedies.html) - dans le bulletin du GEMPPI (Groupe d’Etude des Mouvements de Pensée en vue de la Protection de l’Individu) : Monvoisin R., Ebauche de critique scientifi que des pseudo médecines : le cas frappant des élixirs Floraux de Bach,Actes du colloque « Science, pseudo-sciences et thérapeutiques déviantes », GEMPPI, bull. -
The Great and Powerful Dr. Oz Humbled in Senate Hearing
[ NEWS AND COMMENT The Great and Powerful Dr. Oz Humbled in Senate Hearing DAVID H. GORSKI In June, the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Safety, and Insurance, chaired by Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri), held a hear- ing on “Protecting Consumers from False and Deceptive Advertising of Weight-Loss Products.” Likely few had heard of most of the witnesses giving testimony, which included rep- resentatives from the Federal Trade Commission, supplement manufac- turers, and online advertising groups. However, one witness, Dr. Mehmet Oz, stood out for his fame and influ- ence. Host of the popular daytime program The Dr. Oz Show and dubbed “America’s Doctor” by his patron Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Oz regularly pro- motes dubious weight loss advice and Mehmet Oz, host of the Dr. Oz Show, testifies at a Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance Subcom- supplements with the enthusiastically mittee hearing in Russell Building titled “Protecting Consumers from False and Deceptive Advertising of Weight- hyperbolic language of an old-time Loss Products,” June 17, 2014. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) snake oil salesman. As if that weren’t bad enough, in- loss scammers using his name to sell regularly makes on his show. Unused ter mixed with more conventional their products, a complaint Dr. Oz to not being surrounded by an adoring medical topics Dr. Oz has also fea- has made on his show. Alarmed, they audience, Dr. Oz faltered and became tured quackery such as faith healing, flooded Sen. McCaskill’s office with visibly flustered at points. “cleanses,” “detoxification,” and home- emails containing links to sources As is usual for such a hearing, each opathy; In ter net quacks such as Joseph documenting Dr.