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Alien Abduction, Part 1
Are people really being abducted by aliens? I was recently on the windswept, beautiful, and remote island of Islay in Scotland. It is an island that is mysterious and isolated. Here can be found the famous “walking stones.” These tall stones have flat sides and were most likely directional markers left by people in the early Bronze Age or the even earlier…
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Experimental Parapsychology
This is a general overview of the attempts by scientists and scholars to apply experimental methods to claims of psychic experiences, from spiritualist séances in the second half of the nineteenth century to the statistical methods employed in present-day parapsychology. The Early Period The physicist William Crookes, FRS, investigated séances over several years in the early 1870s. One of his subjects…
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ESP: What can science say?
Ever answer a phone call, only to hear the person you were just thinking of on the other end? Ever had a dream about something that later actually happened? Ever felt like somebody read your mind? Some people may interpret these sorts of experiences as extrasensory perception, or ESP. ESP is defined as an awareness of the world that occurs…
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What Is ESP? How ESP Works
Many of us have dreamed something that eventually came true, had a correct hunch about an event miles away or predicted an out-of-the-blue phone call from an old friend. The experience is incredibly strange — positively spooky — but it happens all the time. Maybe ESP can explain these phenomena. But what is ESP? A sizable chunk of the world’s population attributes these…
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Examples of Pseudoscience in Different Fields
Pseudoscience includes beliefs, theories, or practices that have been or are considered scientific, but have no basis in scientific fact. This could mean they were disproved scientifically, can’t be tested scientifically, or lack evidence to support them. The term generally has a negative connotation. When used, someone’s insinuating the topic isn’t based on scientific findings and is, therefore, lacking in truth. A popular…
