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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Posted on August 19, 2008 8:10 PM • 1 Comments •
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Posted on April 12, 2008 9:19 AM • 15 Comments •
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...
Posted on March 13, 2008 4:25 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted on January 22, 2008 2:37 PM • 11 Comments •
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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Posted on December 15, 2007 6:47 PM • 12 Comments •
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...
Posted on November 30, 2007 8:40 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted on September 25, 2007 8:40 PM • 6 Comments •
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...
Posted on July 28, 2007 9:49 AM • 2 Comments •
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...
Posted on July 25, 2007 6:00 PM • 47 Comments •
