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JSE 244WEB.Indd JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION A Publication of the Society for Scientifi c Exploration (ISSN 0892-3310) Editorial Offi ce: Journal of Scientifi c Exploration, Society for Scientifi c Exploration, Kathleen E. Erickson, JSE Managing Editor, P. O. Box 1190, Tiburon, CA 94920 USA [email protected], 1-415-435-1604, (fax 1-415-435-1654) Manuscript Submission: Submit manuscripts online at http://journalofscientifi cexploration.org/ index.php/jse/login Editor-in-Chief: Stephen E. Braude, University of Maryland Baltimore County, MD Managing Editor: Kathleen E. Erickson, Tiburon, CA Associate Editors Carlos S. Alvarado, Atlantic University, Virginia Beach, VA Daryl Bem, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Robert Bobrow, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY Courtney Brown, Emory University, Alanta, GA Prof. Etzel Cardeña, University of Lund, Sweden Bernard Haisch, Digital Universe Foundation, USA Michael Ibison, Institute for Advanced Studies, Austin, TX John Ives, Samueli Institute, Alexandria, VA Roger D. Nelson, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Dean I. Radin, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, CA Mark Rodeghier, Center for UFO Studies, Chicago, IL Dr. Michael Sudduth, San Francisco State University, CA Book Review Editor: P. D. Moncrief ([email protected]) Proofreader: Elissa Hoeger, Princeton, NJ Society for Scientifi c Exploration Website — http://www.scientifi cexploration.org Chair, Publications Committee: Robert G. Jahn, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Editorial Board Dr. Mikel Aickin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Prof. Rémy Chauvin, Sorbonne, Paris, France Prof. Olivier Costa de Beauregard, University of Paris, France Dr. Steven J. Dick, U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, DC Dr. Peter Fenwick, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK Dr. Alan Gauld, University of Nottingham, UK Prof. Richard C. Henry (Chairman), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Prof. Robert G. Jahn, Princeton University, NJ Prof. W. H. Jeff erys, University of Texas, Austin, TX Dr. Wayne B. Jonas, Samueli Institute, Alexandria, VA Dr. Michael Levin, Tufts University, Boston, MA Dr. David C. Pieri, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Prof. Juan Roederer, University of Alaska–Fairbanks, AK Prof. Kunitomo Sakurai, Kanagawa University, Japan Prof. Yervant Terzian, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Prof. N. C. Wickramasinghe, Cardiff University, UK SUBSCRIPTIONS & PREVIOUS JOURNAL ISSUES: Order forms on pages 801–803, or scientifi cexploration.org. COPYRIGHT: Authors retain copyright to their writings. However, when an article has been submitted to the Journal of Scientifi c Exploration for consideration, the Journal holds fi rst serial (periodical) publication rights. Addi- tionally, the Society has the right to post the published article on the Internet and make it available via electronic and print subscription. Th e material must not appear anywhere else (including on an Internet website) until it has been published by the Journal (or rejected for publication). After publication in the Journal, authors may use the material as they wish but should make appropriate reference to prior publication in the Journal. For example: “Reprinted from [or “From”] “[title of article]”, Journal of Scientifi c Exploration, vol. [xx], no. [xx], pp. [xx], published by the Society for Scientifi c Exploration, http://www.scientifi cexploration.org.” Journal of Scientifi c Exploration (ISSN 0892-3310) is published quarterly in March, June, September, and Decem- ber by the Society for Scientifi c Exploration, P. O. Box 1190, Tiburon, CA 94920 USA. Society Members receive a subscription to the Journal with their membership. Library/Org. subscriptions: $135 online, $195 print/online. ii Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 24, No. 4 JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION A Publication of the Society for Scientifi c Exploration Volume 24, Number 4 2010 Editorial 577 Editorial STEPHEN E. BRAUDE Research Articles 581 Psi in a Skeptic’s Lab. A Successful Replication of Ertel’s Ball Selection Test SUITBERT ERTEL 599 Anticipatory Alarm Behavior in Bengalese Finches FERNANDO ALVAREZ 611 The Daniel Experiment: Sitter Group MIKE WILSON, BRYAN J . Contributions with Field RNG and WILLIAMS, TIMOTHY M. MESA Environmental Recordings HARTE, WILLIAM G. ROLL 637 Field RNG Data Analysis, Based on Viewing TAKESHI SHIMIZU the Japanese Movie Departures (Okuribito) MASATO ISHIKAWA 655 The Healing Connection: EEG Harmonics, LUKE HENDRICKS, WILLIAM F. Entrainment, and Schumann’s Resonances BENGSTON, JAY GUNKELMAN 667 Laboratory Psi Effects May Be Put to Practical Use: Two Pilot Studies JAMES CARPENTER Letter to the Editor 691 Only Ostensibly Anomalous LARRY DOSSEY Book Reviews 693 Essay Review: “Denialism”: The New “Pseudo-Science” Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientifi c Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives by Michael Specter; and Special Report: Living in Denial by Michael Shermer, Debora MacKenzie, Richard Littlemore, Jim Giles, and Michael Fitzpatrick HENRY H. BAUER 701 Essay Review: Refl ections on Frederic Myers’ Romantic Psychology. Immortal Longings: F. W. H. Myers and the Victorian Search for Life After Death by Trevor Hamilton MICHAEL GROSSO 715 Dictionnaire des Miracles et de l’Extraordinaire Chrétiens edited by Patrick Sbalchiero CARLOS S. ALVARADO 723 UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Offi cials Go on the Record by Leslie Kean BILLY COX 726 Controlled Remote Viewing for Scientifi c Investigations: Student Workbook by Michael Van Atta and Susan COURTNEY BROWN Van Atta, with Melvin L. Morse LYN BUCHANAN iii iv Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 24, No. 4 729 Out-of-Body and Near-Death Experiences: Brain-State Phenomena or Glimpses of Immortality? by Michael N. Marsh EDWARD F. KELLY 738 The Purpose-Guided Universe: Believing in Einstein, Darwin, and God by Bernard Haisch ALAN H. BATTEN 744 Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred by Jeffrey J. Kripal MICHAEL GROSSO 751 Mind Before Matter—Visions of a New Science of Consciousness edited by Trish Pfeiffer, John Mack and Paul Devereux CLAUDE SWANSON 756 Consciousness and Its Objects by Colin McGinn STAN V. M CDANIEL 765 Carl Sagan: A Biography by Ray Spangenburg and Kit Moser YERVANT TERZIAN 767 La Télépathie: Recherches Expérimentales by René Warcollier DJOHAR SI AHMED Further Books of Note 778 The Altenberg 16: An Exposé of the Evolution Industry by Suzan Mazur HENRY H. BAUER 779 The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann STEPHEN C. JETT Articles of Interest 782 Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome by D. G. Gibson John I. Glass, Carole Lartigue, Vladimir N. Nosko, Ray-Yuan Chuang, et al., Science, 329(5987) MICHAEL LEVIN 784 Bon Voyage, Caveman by Brendan Borrell, Archaeology, 63(3) STEPHEN C. JETT SSE News 786 SSE Masthead 787 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Scientifi c Exploration, 2011 788 Index of Previous Articles in JSE 801 Order forms for JSE Issues, JSE Subscriptions, and Society Membership 804 Instructions for Authors Journal of Scientifi c Exploration, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 577–580, 2010 0892-3310/10 EDITORIAL think I now understand why Gene Fowler once said, “An editor should I have a pimp for a brother, so he’d have someone to look up to.” That unfl attering sentiment about editors isn’t nearly as uncommon as I’d thought before taking on the job of JSE Editor-in-Chief. And I can see why; people in my position have many opportunities for making others unhappy. In fact, be- cause the JSE is such an unusual, cutting-edge publication, those opportunities may be especially plentiful. So although I don’t want this to become a recurring theme of my editorials, I feel that a few more remarks on editorial business and peer review wouldn’t be out of place. I mentioned in the last issue that my Associate Editors and I occasionally reappraise papers that were previously rejected. That can happen for various reasons. For example, in the case of complex, technical, or less than ideally clear submissions, reviewers can misinterpret what they’ve read, and authors are quick to point that out. But sometimes it’s because the submission’s initial review may have been hasty, superfi cial, or even prejudicial. Now make no mistake: I trust the folks on my editorial team and I don’t believe these infrequent cases reveal anything sinister about them or about the review process. As any teacher knows from grading essays, no matter how scrupulous and fair you try to be, sometimes things just rub you the wrong way, and sometimes (probably more often than we’d like to admit) our critical faculties aren’t as sharp as we’d like. These lapses can happen to the best of people, and we try to be alert for them and honest about our fallibility. In fact (as I’ve mentioned before), we are especially alert for the kinds of negative reactions that can all too easily be elicited by works in areas of frontier science. However, a number of disappointed authors have proposed to me that we make it a policy to re-evaluate submissions, always allowing the author the opportunity for appeal. I haven’t yet decided if I oppose that idea in principle, but I must certainly oppose it for practical reasons. It’s simply not something we can afford to do as a matter of course. The main problem is that the JSE is a very specialized publication, and relatively few people are both technically competent and suffi ciently open-minded to referee papers for it. So our pool of potential reviewers is quite limited, and we often have great trouble fi nding people qualifi ed and available to evaluate submissions. In fact, the JSE’s valiant (and unpaid) Associate Editors and reviewers are overloaded as it is. To routinely re-assess papers we reject just because the authors disagree with the judgment would strain our system (and my team) to the breaking point. 577 578 Editorial I also receive more than occasional complaints from readers who are outraged that a particular article appeared in the JSE’s pages.
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