Terence Hines - Pseudoscience and the Paranormal

calculating

earliest

studies of

hot hand phenomenon

Houdini, Harry

fraud exposed by

spiritualism and

human energy fields

vs. body heat

existence of

lack of studies on

photographs of

humanistic psychology

hunches

Hussey, Thomas

Hyman, Ray

Hynek, J. Allen

hypnagogic hallucinations

hypnopompic hallucinations

hypnosis

Hill abductions and

pseudoscience origins

recovered memories through

reincarnation and

susceptibility

hypotheses, irrefutable. See irrefutable hypotheses

id

illness. See disease

Illuminati

illusions, cognitive

illusory contours

illusory correlation

impact theory, astronomical

infant amnesia

infant development, PCBs and

Ingram, Paul

intercessory prayer

intuition

in Therapeutic Touch

irrefutable hypotheses

creationism and

defined

in legitimate science

permitted in parapsychology

as verifiable

Jaks, Stanley

Janov, Arthur

jargon, in alternative medicine

jealous phenomena

defined

in experimental studies

UFOs as

Jelf, Ernest

Jesus Christ, on Shroud of Turin

Jirmoun, Harish

Jones, Jim

Jung, Carl Gustav

psychological theories

synchronicity theory

junk science

Kaufman, Andy

Keene, M. Lamar

Kennedy assassination

Kirlian photography

Krieger, Dolores

Kuhlman, Kathryn

Kunz, Dora van Gelder

latent content, of dreams

latent homosexuality

Laurence, Michael

law of large numbers

leg-lengthening trick

legends

Dogon

pseudoscience and

Legionnaires’ disease

Leidenfrost effect

Leonard, George

Leoni, Edgar

Leverrier, Urbain Jean Joseph

lexical decision tasks

lie detectors. See polygraphy

Lieber, Arnold

life after death. See also ghosts

literature, symbolic interpretation of

localizationism

Loch Ness monster

Loftus, Elizabeth

Lorenzen, Coral

Lorenzen, James

lost object finding

lotteries

Lourdes shrine

Lowell, Percival

lunar effect

Lutz family hoax

Mack, John

Mackay, John

Mackenzie House haunting

Maddox, John

magnetic therapy

Maimonides Medical Center

Majestic

Mallardi, Vincent

manic-depressive psychosis

manifest content, of dreams

Marine Sulphur Queen disappearance

Mars

canals

face on

Maslow, Abraham

mass hysteria

breast implants

defined

environmental. See environmental agents

media’s role in

Seattle (1958)

See also temporary mass hypochondria

mastabas

McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research

McMartin Preschool case

McMinnville, Oregon, UFO photos from

media

alien abductions in

mass hysteria spread by

paranormal topics in

Satanic Panic and

therapeutic touch in

UFO “cover-ups” in

medicine, alternative. See alternative medicine

medicine, empirical study in

mediums

Doris Stokes

fraud pervasive among

Helene Smith

See also psychics; spiritualism

memory

constructive nature of

fallibility

infant amnesia and

recovered. See recovered memories

selective for coincidences

See also perception

Men in Black

Menger, Howard

menstrual cycles, biorhythms and

mental disorders

Mesmer, Franz Anton

meteorites

meteors

Tunguska event and

UFO sightings and

microwaves

migraine headaches

Miller, William

Millikan experiment

mind reading, Geller’s

miracle cures. See faith healers

MJ-12 documents

monsters. See cryptozoology

Montgomery, Ruth

moon madness

Moore, William L.

Mullens, Rent

multiple out

defined

by Dorothy Allison

in dowsing

in faith healing

prophetic dreams and

multiple personality disorder

multiple sclerosis remissions

mummies

Murphy, Bridey

myths, pseudoscience and

N rays

nasal reflex neurosis

National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP)

National Research Council

on EMFs

on polygraphs

Nature (journal)

naturopathy

Nazca Desert designs

Nazism

pseudoscience and

UFOs and

near-death experiences

Neptune, discovery of

neurobiology

localizationism

psychoanalysis and

neuropathology

as cause for “possession,”

epilepsy

migraines

mystical experiences and

Tourette’s syndrome

neurotransmitters

New Age movement

New Zealand UFO films

newspapers. See media

Nickell, Joe

nitinol, bending

Noah’s ark

Nolen, William A.

nonconscious movements

dowsing

facilitated communication

Ouija boards

Nostradamus, predictions of

Oedipus complex

defined

in sexual development

offerings, during faith healings

orgone energy

Ouija boards

out-of-body experiences

Palmer, Ray

paranormal, defined

parapsychology

believers’ worldview

defined

irrefutable hypothesis permitted in

laboratory studies. See experimental parapsychology

in media

quantum mechanics and

Patterson, Roger

peer review

pendulum, dowsing

penis envy

perception

constancy of

constructive

illusory contours

perceptual closure

Perrin, Serge

personality

Freud’s structure of

handwriting analysis

influenced by astrology

Peruvian desert designs

Pfungst, Oskar

phantom studies

photographs

Kirlian

Loch Ness monster

UFO. See UFO photographs

phrenology

Piri Re’is map

placebo effect

in faith healing

in medical therapies

in psychotherapy

police psychics

Dorothy Allison

Gerard Croiset

media attention

scientific studies of

poltergeists

polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)

polygraphy

polywater

Pons, Stanley

Popoff, Peter

population stereotypes

possession, demonic

posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

power lines, cancer clusters and

prayer, intercessory

precession

precognition. See dreams, prophetic; predictions

predictions

astrological

failures

Jeane Dixon’s

Nostradamus’s

in remote viewing experiments

scientific studies of

of Titanic sinking

of World Trade Center destruction

See also dreams, prophetic

Price, Harry

primal therapy

probability, poor understanding of

profiling, criminal

Project Alpha

Project Blue Book

Project Mogul

projective tests, psychoanalytic

prophecies. See dreams, prophetic; predictions

pseudoscience

burden of proof

dangers of believing

defined

determining

myths and

Nazism and

paranormal as subset

psychological issues

as revealed truth

science mixed with

scientific responsibility toward

studying

truth within

Web sites debunking

See also scientific mistakes