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MID Parapsychology GARDNER ON DISTANT HEALING • SHELDRAKE ON THE STARING EFFECT • WORLD SKEPTICS CONGRESS Skeptical Inquirer THE MAGAZINE FOR SCIENCE AND REA SO N Volume 25, No. 2 • March/April 2001 consciousness MID parapsychology t^ Diirtilu Lu. El '.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^mn^^^^^^^^^^yl THE COMMITTEE FOR THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CLAIMS OF THE PARANORMAL AT THE CENTER FOR INQUIRY-INTERNATIONAL (ADJACENT TO THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO) • AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION Paul Kurtz, Chairman; professor emeritus of philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo Barry Karr, Executive Director Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow Lee Nisbet, Special Projects Director FELLOWS James E. Alcock,* psychologist. York Univ., Thomas Gilovich, psychologist, Cornell Univ. Dorothy Nelkin, sociologist, New York Univ. Toronto Henry Gordon, magician, columnist, Toronto Joe Nickell,* senior research fellow, CSICOP Jerry Andrus, magician and inventor, Albany, Stephen Jay Gould, Museum of Comparative Lee Nisbet* philosopher, Medaille College Oregon Zoology, Harvard Univ. Bill Nye, science educator and television host, Marcia Angell, M.D., former editor-in-chief, Susan Haack, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts Nye Labs New England Journal of Medicine and Sciences, prof, of philosophy, University James E. Oberg, science writer Robert A. Baker, psychologist, Univ. of of Miami Loren Pankratz, psychologist, Oregon Health Kentucky C. E. M. Hansel, psychologist, Univ. of Wales Sciences Univ. Stephen Barrett M.D., psychiatrist, author, Al Hibbs, scientist. Jet Propulsion Laboratory John Paulos, mathematician, Temple Univ. consumer advocate, Allentown. Pa. Douglas Hofstadter, professor of human Steven Pinker, cognitive scientist. MIT Barry Beyerstein,* biopsychologist. Simon understanding and cognitive science, Indiana Milton Rosenberg, psychologist, Univ. of Fraser Univ., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Univ. Chicago Irving Biederman. psychologist, Univ. of Gerald Holton, Mallinckrodt Professor of Wallace Sampson. M.D., clinical professor of Southern California Physics and professor of history of science, medicine. Stanford Univ. Susan Blackmore, psychologist, Univ. of the Harvard Univ. Amardeo Sarma, engineer, head of dept. West of England, Bristol Ray Hyman,* psychologist, Univ. of Oregon at T-Nova Deutsche Telekom Henri Broch, physicist, Univ. of Nice, France Leon Jaroff, sciences editor emeritus, Time Innovationsgesellschaft mbH Headquarters, Jan Harold Brunvand, folklorist, professor Sergei Kapitza, editor. Russian edition, executive director, GWUP, Germany. emeritus of English, Univ. of Utah Scientific American Evry Schatzman, president French Physics Vern Bullough, professor of history, California Philip J. 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Sprague de Camp: Erudite Writer on ARGUMENT AGAINST EVOLUTION? Archaeology, Ancient Engineering, and Pseudoscience (and Science Fiction Too) / Aromatherapy Company Settles Lawsuit Disputing Health Claims / Tabloid Busts Fox TV on Pyramid 35 Darwin in Mind Special 5 'Intelligent Design' Meets Artificial Intelligence SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO W. V. QUINE PAUL KURTZ 8 Proponents of Intelligent Design" claim information theory refutes Darwinian evolution. Modern physics and artificial CONFERENCE REPORT intelligence research turns their arguments on their head. Rousing World Skeptics Congress TANER EDIS Convened in Sydney, Australia PAUL KURTZ 9 40 A Bit Confused NOTES OF A FRINGE-WATCHER Creationism and Information Theory Distant Healing and Elizabeth Targ The argument of some creationists that modern information MARTIN GARDNER 12 theory refutes Darwinian evolution is based on a confusion between two distinct information concepts. At the heart of INVESTIGATIVE FILES the Darwinian thesis is not information, but complexity. Mysterious Australia DAVID ROCHE JOE NICKELL 15 PSYCHIC VIBRATIONS ARTICLES The Great Chupacabra Conspiracy ROBERT SHEAFFER 19 22 What Can the Paranormal Teach Us FORUM About Consciousness? How to Live With Evolution SUSAN BURY 56 Parapsychologists seem to assume that psychic phenomena—if tfjey exist—would prove the "power of consciousness. " Yet this FOLLOW-UP may be no more than trying to use one mystery to solve Research on the Feeling of Being Stared At another. Susan
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