Terence Hines - Pseudoscience and the Paranormal

Blackie pictures, studies using

Blackmore, Susan

blinded studies

Blondlot, René

Bockris, John

bombardier beetles

Borley Rectory haunting

Bower, Doug

Brazel, Mack

breast implants, and connective tissue disease

Brodeur, Paul

Browne, Sylvia

Budd-Chiari syndrome remissions

Buscaglia, Leo

Camp Chesterfield

cancer

asbestos and

cell phones and

microwaves and

power lines and

spontaneous regression

as treatable

castration anxiety

cattle mutilation

cell phones, brain cancer and

Center for UFO Studies

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), UFO files and

cerebral anoxia

chance

vs. actual effects

cancer clusters and

in Rhine experiments

in statistical analysis

See also coincidence

channeling

charity, faith healing considered

Charpentier, Auguste

chelation therapy

Chevreul, Michel-Eugene

Chorley, Dave

Christ, on Shroud of Turin

Christian fundamentalists

faith healers among

UFOs and

Christian Scientists

clairvoyance, study of

Clever Hans

close encounters

coining of term

of the first kind. See UFO sightings

of the third kind. See alien abductions

coelacanth

cognitive behavior therapy

cognitive illusions

cognitive processing

herbal remedies and

cognitive psychology

defined

memory theories

coincidence

of prophetic dreams

selective memory for

synchronicity and

See also chance

cold fusion

cold readings

effects of

in faith healing

collective delusions. See mass hysteria

color vision

Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP)

Communion (Streiber)

compatibility, astrological

Condon Committee

evidence testing by

connective tissue disease, breast implants and

consciousness, Freud’s levels of

conspiracy theories

EMFs

hollow earth

UFO cover-ups. See UFO cover-ups

consumer fraud, pseudoscience and

copper bracelets

creationism

“evidence” for

refutations of

critical days, in biorhythm theory

Croiset, Gerard

crop circles

Crossing Over (TV show)

Crossley, Rosemary

cryptozoology

bigfoot

characteristics of

International Society of

Loch Ness monster

yeti

cure by biopsy

Da Vinci, Leonardo, Freud’s analysis of

dead, communication with. See spiritualism

death, life after. See also ghosts

déjà vu experiences

demonic possession, neurologic disorders and

dentistry, psychic

depression

physiological causes

St. John’s wort and

Desai, Morarji

Deslon, Charles

dietary supplements, herbal remedies as

Dinsdale, Tim

disease

homeopathic approach to

mass hysteria about

Mesmer’s theory of

spontaneous regression

variability over time

See also specific diseases

displacement effects

dissociative states

Dixon, Jeane

Dogon legends

donations, during faith healings

Dow Corning Company, bankruptcy of

dowsing

Doyle, Arthur Conan

fairy hoax and

spiritualism and

dreams

EEG studies of

interpretation of

neurobiologic basis

out-of-body experiences and

dreams, prophetic

as coincidence

multiple out factor

pervasiveness

Eckstein, Emma

Edward, John

Edwards, Michael

EEG studies

ego

Egypt, ancient

Eisenbud, Jule

electromagnetic fields

and astrological influence

cancer clusters and

human energy fields and

National Research Council on

Ellen Austin disappearance

Ellis, Albert

end-of-the-world movements

endorphins, and faith healing

environmental agents

Alar

asbestos

EMFs. See electromagnetic fields

mass hysteria about

microwaves

PCBs

epilepsy

ESP (extrasensory perception)

believers

Ganzfeld studies

incidence of

replication failure in studies of

Rhine studies. See Rhine studies

Soal studies

spiritualism and

Zener card studies

euphoria, epileptic

Evans, Jane

evolution. See creationism

Exorcist, The (movie)

experimental parapsychology

ESP studies. See ESP (extrasensory perception)

history of

jealous phenomena and

methodology issues

random event studies

reaction time studies

remote viewing. See remote viewing experiments

replication failure

extrasensory perception. See ESP (extrasensory perception)

extraterrestrials. See alien abductions; UFOs

facilitated communication

fairies

faith healers

belief in

as “charity,”

Christian Scientists as

dangers of

earliest

fraudulent techniques

insurance reimbursement for

Kathryn Kuhlman

Peter Popoff

testimonials important for

W. V. Grant

See also shrines

fallacy of personal validation

Faraday, Michael

Fawcett, Jim

Fedyakin, Nikdlai

Feinstein, Alan Shawn

films, UFO. See UFO films

Fire in the Sky (movie)

firewalking

Fleischmann, Martin

Fliess, Wilhelm

biorhythm theory

nasal reflex neurosis

Flight 19 disappearance

Flying Saucer Review (magazine)

fortification illusions

Fox sisters

confessed to fraud

Foyster, Marianne

Franklin, Benjamin

Franklin, Wilbur

free association

Freemasons

Freud, Sigmund

on consciousness

influence of

irrefutable hypothesis of

neurological training

Oedipus complex

on personality

psychoanalysis founded by

on sexual development

symbolic interpretation and. See symbolic interpretation

Friedman, Stanton

Fuller, John

Fuller, Willard

Gajdusek, Arleton

Gall, Franz Joseph

Galton, Francis

Ganzfeld studies

Geller, Uri

exposed

metal bending

Randi on

ghosts

eyewitness reports

hallucinations and

hoaxes

See also life after death

ginko biloba

Gish, Duane

Gittelson, Bernard

Goodman, Linda

Grant, W. V.

graphology

gravity

astrological influence

and moon madness

Griffiths, Frances

Ground Saucer Watch (GSW)

on CIA files

CIA suit

on Heflin photos

Guerin, Pierre

guided imagery

Guilty Knowledge Test

Gulf Breeze UFO photos

Guyana tragedy

Hahnemann, Samuel

hallucinations

alien abductions

ghosts

near-death experiences

See also visual illusions

handwriting analysis

Hare, Robert

hauntings. See ghosts

heat capacity, firewalking and

Heaven’s Gate cult

Heflin, Rex

herbal remedies

Hersey, Rexford

Hill family abductions

hiring decisions

graphology and

polygraphy and

history, symbolic interpretation of

Hitler, Adolf

Hoagland, Richard C.

hollow earth theory

Holocaust denial movement

homeopathy

homosexuality

castration anxiety and

latent

physiology of

Hopkins, Budd

horoscopes