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Category: Pseudoscience
The notorious Australian bushranger Edward "Ned" Kelly was apprehended in 1878, following a confrontation during which he and his gang killed three policemen. Upon his arrest, Kelly was thus described by the police: 5'10" tall, weight 11st 4lbs, medium build,...
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Category: Pseudoscience
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Category: Neuroscience
Best-selling fantasy writer Terry Pratchett, who announced in December that he has a rare form of early onset Alzheimer's, has pledged $1million for research into the disease.In a speech given ealier today at the Alzheimer's Research Trust Netowrk Conference in...
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Category: Pseudoscience
Among the one third of Americans who believe in ghosts are high-ranking officials in the intelligence agencies and military.In the 1970s and 80s, the CIA funded research into "remote viewing", so that they could train clairvoyants to locate, among other...
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Category: Pseudoscience
Remote viewing is a form of "psychoenergetic perception" (i.e. clairvoyance) developed as part of a long-term $20 million research program initiated by U.S. intelligence agencies in the early 1970s. Now known by the codename Stargate, the program was initiated largely...
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Category: Books
This brain map comes from The Book of Life: The Spiritual and Physical Constitution of Man (1912), by the obscure mystical philosopher Alesha Sivartha, who is sometimes referred to as a "grandfather of the new-age movement".The map is of particular...
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Category: Pseudoscience
I received an email earlier today from one Nelson Abreu, who offered a criticism of the experimentally-induced out-of-body experiences that were reported recently, in the hope that I might post a reaction on my blog. In his message, Mr. Abreu...
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Category: Medicine & Health
Earlier this week, I posted an email I received about a nutritional supplement called EM Power Plus. The makers of this product, a Canadian company called TrueHope, claim that it can alleviate the symptoms of bipolar disorder. In the...
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Category: Medicine & Health
I received this email yesterday: Hello, I just read your post [on augmented cognition] and found it intriguing. I have been experimenting with a nutritional supplement for the past several years which was designed to treat bi-polar disorder (and it...
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