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Wynn C.M., Wiggins A.W. — Quantum leaps in the wrong direction
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Íàçâàíèå: Quantum leaps in the wrong directionÀâòîðû: Wynn C.M., Wiggins A.W. Àííîòàöèÿ: In this lightweight little book, Wynn, a professor of chemistry, and Wiggins, a professor of physics, follow up their Five Biggest Ideas in Science with what might be called The Five Biggest Ideas in Pseudoscience: UFOs and aliens, out-of-body experiences, astrology, creationism, and ESP. Into this mix they throw every suspect (usually money-making) pseudoscience they can think of. Their inclusion of graphology might be questioned, since it has long held a higher reputation in Europe than in the U.S., and the matter of Holocaust deniers is better dealt with elsewhere. The chapter on creationism is unlikely to change the opinions of many believers, and an ill-considered section on life after death may cause some readers to set the book aside. Angels fear to tread into discussions of the immortality of the soul, and these authors should have too. Wynn and Wiggins apparently were aiming for a serious discussion leavened with humor, but their approach seems incoherent. Sidney Harris, well known for his work in the New Yorker, has contributed cartoons, but they are rather hit-and-miss and just add to the uneven tone of the book. The authors make some interesting points (Noah's ark, if built to the dimensions given in the Bible, wouldn't have been seaworthy), but it's doubtful that readers who believe in astrology, ESP or UFOs will pick this book up to begin with, let alone be convinced by the authors' arguments. (June 5)Forecast: It won't be long before this title takes a quantum leap into the remainder bins.
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Hearing 77 146 147 148 152 Heaven’s Gate cult vii-ix 187 Hill, Betty and Barney 60 61—62 Hinduism 73 85 88 Hinton, Martin 183 Hippomancy 199 Hoaxes, Bigloot 171 Hoaxes, Cardiff Giant 181—182 Hoaxes, crop circles 184 Hoaxes, PiltdownMan 183 Hoaxes, psychic powers 163—164 192 Hoaxes, spirits 81—82 83—84 Hoaxes, UFOs 54 Holocaust denial 184—186 Holy Spirit 88 Homeopathy 180—181 199 Horoscopes/natal charts 107 108 110 117 162 199 Hot reading 199 Houdini, Harry 199 Hull, George 181—182 Human sciences 26—29 Hydromancy 199 Hypnosis, regressive 61 89 Hypotheses and astrology 111—113 Hypotheses and prediction 9 10 Hypotheses in human sciences 28 29 Hypotheses in natural sciences 28 29 Hypotheses, absolute proof 8 19 Hypotheses, competing 6—7 Hypotheses, defined 42 Hypotheses, falsifiability 40 44 63 114—115 139 165 Hypotheses, inductive reasoning and 7—8 Hypotheses, observations and 3 5 45 Hypotheses, Occam’s razor and 6—7 63 Hypotheses, pseudoscientific 39—40 42 44—45 Hypotheses, recycling/revising 3 4 9—10 18 29 41 44 45 118 Hypotheses, testing 3 4—5 9 14—15 28 85—86 117—118 Hypotheses, types 10—11 I Ching 102—103 199 Ichthyomancy 199 Identified flying objects (IFOs) 54—56 Ideomotor effect 199 Illusion in magic 35—37 Illusion, levitation 164—165 Illusion, Moon 51 Illusion, pareidolia 23 Illusion, psychic powers as 164—165 Illusion, special effects in movies 31 Illusion, visual 53 Immortality 72 91 199 IMP 199 Incantation 199 Incubus 199 Inductive reasoning 7—8 Infant cognition 79 Intuition 200 Iridology 200 J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) 56 James Randi Educational Foundation 188 Jaroslaw, Dan and Grant 54 Judeo-Christians 73 Jupiter (planet) 90—91 Kabala 200 Karma 200 Kinesthetic sense 150—151 Kirlian photography 200 Knight, J.Z. 84—85 Kreskin 200 Kuban, Glen 135 Kurtz, Paul 119 Lamarck, J.B. 142 143 Lampadomancy 200 Law of universal gravitation 35 40 114 138 164 Law, defined 11 Lecanomancy 200 Lemuria 200 Levitation 164—165 200 Levy, Walter J. 156 Libanomancy 200 Lie detector tests 62 Life after death 72 Lincoln, Abraham 81 Lincoln, Mary Todd 80—81 Lithomancy 200 Loch Ness monster 171—172 181 200 Lodestone 35 Lutz, George and Kathy 83—84 Lycanthropy 200 Lysenkoism 142—143 Magic, black 194 Magic, book trick 38 Magic, illusion in 35—37 178 Magic, psychic powers as 163—164 178—179 Magic, raisin trick 36—37 Magick 37—38 178—179 Magnetism 35 163 magnetite 35 Man in the Moon 23 Mandala 200 Mantra 200 Map dowsing 159 201 Margaritomancy 201 Mariner 10 90 Mars (planet) 23 108—109 Marsh, Othniel C. 182 Materialization 201 Mayan "astronaut" carvings 57—58 McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research 164 Mediums 73 84—86 201 205 Memory, partially constructed 76 Mendelian genetics 143 Mentalists 194 197 200 201 Mercury (Planet) 108 Mesozoic era 133 Metagnomy 201 Meteoromancy 201 Metoposcopy 201 Michurin, I.V. 143 Milky Way galaxy 122 Mintaka 107 Models 11 Molybdomancy 201 Moon 51 108 113—114 Motion sickness 151 Mount Ararat 131 mu 201 Mummler, William H. 80—81 Murphy, Bridey 89 201 Mutations 125 137 Myomancy 201 N rays 21—23 201 National Academy of Sciences 119 National Aeronautics and Space Administration 65 Natural phenomena, scientific explanations of 34—35 36—37 Natural sciences 26—29 Nature (journal) 23 Nazca lines 58 Near-death experiences 72—73 Near-death experiences, metaphysical explanations 76—78 Near-death experiences, neurochemical explanations 73—76 79 Near-death experiences, oxygen deprivation and 79 Near-death experiences, Sagan's birth experience hypothesis 79 Near-death experiences, transforming power of 77—78 Necromancy 201 New Age philosophy 84—85 201 Newton, Isaac 35 40 Noah’s Ark 129 130—131 Nobel Prize winners 119 Normal sensory perception 170 Normal sensory perception, balance 146 151 Normal sensory perception, detection of stimuli 146 Normal sensory perception, hearing 77 146 147 148 152 Normal sensory perception, limitations 151—152 Normal sensory perception, physical system 145—151 Normal sensory perception, position 150—151 Normal sensory perception, receptor cells and transduction 146—147 Normal sensory perception, smell 146 149 152 Normal sensory perception, taste 146 149 152 Normal sensory perception, touch 146 150 Normal sensory perception, vision 51—53 146 147 148 151 152 Nostradamus 160—161 201 Numerology 97—98 202 Oakley, Kenneth 183 Observation 111 Observation and hypothesis formation 3 5 Observation and inductive reasoning 16 Observation of UFOs 6 51—52 Observation, defined 42 Observation, frame of reference 25—26 Observation, human sciences 27 Observation, natural sciences 27 Observation, process 44 Observation, pseudoscientific viii—ix 38—39 42 44 Observation, reproducibility 6 24 83 156 Observation, scientific, viii 3 4 5—6 16 Observation, subjective judgments in 5—6 23—24 Observation, visual physiology and 51—53 Occam’s razor 6—7 39 Occulomancy 202 OCCULT 202 Oinomancy 202 Old Man of the Mountain rock formation 23 Omen 202 Oneiromancy 202 Onychomancy 202 Oomantia 202 Oracular prophesies 88 Orion’s Belt 107 Ornithomancy 202 Orphists 88 Ouija boards 100—102 160 202 203 Out-of-body experiences 71 72—76 168 202 Oxygen deprivation 79 Pacal, Mayan King 57—58 Pain perception 150 Palmistry 94—96 202 Paranormal 202 Parapsychology 152—153 154—158 202 see "Psychic Pareidolia 23 Pegomancy 202 Pendulum 202 Perceptions of reality 6 Perceptual construction 21—23 Periodic table 34 Personality traits, inheritance 112—113 Philosopher’s stone 203 Photosynthesis 136 Phrenology 203 Phyllorhodomancy 203 Piltdown Man 183 Pioneer 10 90 Placebo effect 176—177 179 203 Planchette 203 Plate tectonics model of Earth 11 34 125—126 127 138 Pogue, Bill 55 Poincare, Jules Henri 1 Police psychics 203 Poltergeists 80 84 203 Position sense 150—151 Possession 87—88 203 Potion 203 Power of suggestion 118 159—160 Precognition 154 155 161—162 203 Premonition 203 Prophesy 203 Pseudomemories 61—62 Pseudoscience, biggest ideas of 46 Pseudoscience, fields 1—2 Pseudoscience, magick 37—38 Pseudoscience, popularity 31—32 Pseudoscience, problems and flaws associated with 41—45 168 Pseudoscience, real-world influences of vii-ix 32—33 179 181 Pseudoscientific approaches, experimentation 40—41 43 45 Pseudoscientific approaches, hypotheses 39—40 42 44—45 Pseudoscientific approaches, observation viii-ix 38—39 42 44 Pseudoscientific approaches, predictions 40 43 45 86 Pseudoscientific approaches, recycling 41 44 45 Psi 152 203 Psi gap 203 Psychic abilities, "source of powers" 153 Psychic abilities, clairvoyance 154 155 158 160—162 Psychic abilities, dowsing 39 158—160 201 Psychic abilities, experiments 154—158 163—164 Psychic abilities, extrasensory perception 32 152 153—158 165 170 Psychic abilities, fraudulent 39 188 Psychic abilities, levitation 164—165 Psychic abilities, military interest in 153 Psychic abilities, Nostradamus 160—161 Psychic abilities, precognition 154 155 161—162 203 Psychic abilities, psychokinesis 38—39 152 153 162—165 170 204 Psychic abilities, psychometry 154 Psychic abilities, remote viewing 157 Psychic abilities, retrocognition 154 161—162 Psychic abilities, scientific explanation of 165 170 Psychic abilities, telepathy 154 155 158 206 Psychic abilities, tests 155 Psychic abilities, Zener deck 154 157 Psychic portraits 203 Psychic surgery 177—179 191 192 204 Psychics 38 153 157 160—161 163 191 192 197 198 203 Psychokinesis 38—39 152 153 162—165 170 204 Psychometry 154 204 Ptolemy, Claudius 106 107 Pyramid power 204 Pyrite 167—168 Pyromancy 204 qi 204 quantum mechanics 19 20 24 Quasars 122 138 Radiometric dating 125 Rampa, T. Lobsang 204 Randi, James 91 164 188 Rapping 204 Reincarnation 88—89 204 Remote Viewing 157 204 Reproducibility of observations 6 24 43 156 165 Resch, Tina 84 Retrocognition 154 161—162 Rhabdomancy 204 Rhapsodomancy 204 Rhine, Joseph B. and Louisa 154 157 163 Roentgen, Wilhelm 21 22 Roman Catholic Church 104 Roswell incident 50—51 56—57 67 Runes 204 Rutherford, Ernest 17—19 29 34 121 Sagan, Carl 31 79 Sai Baba 37—38 204 Salisberry, Rex and Carol 54 Sasquatch 170 204 Schultz, Lea 86 Science and faith 78 140—141 Science and magic 35—38 Science and supernatural phenomena 34—35 Science, fields 1—2 Science, subdivisions 2 26—29 Scientific approaches see "Hypotheses" "Observation" Scientific approaches, characteristic activities 2 Scientific approaches, experimentation 3 4 9 12 14—15 17—18 28 40 43 45 86 117—118 Scientific approaches, laws 11
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