Terence Hines - Pseudoscience and the Paranormal

psi phenomena

defined

proposed mechanisms

psychic dentistry

psychic surgery

psychics

billet reading

cold readings

crime detection. See police psychics

Jeane Dixon

lost object finding

Nostradamus. See Nostradamus

Tamara Rand

Ted Serios

See also mediums; spiritualism

psychoanalysis

clinical “proof,”

effectiveness

founded by Freud

irrefutable hypothesis of

lasting influence

neurobiology and

projective tests

repression and

symbolic interpretation in. See symbolic interpretation

unconscious and

psychokinesis, spiritualism and

psychology

cognitive

humanistic

psychosis, manic-depressive

psychotherapists

effectiveness

inadequate training

Ptolemy, modem astrology and

Puthoff, Harold

deceived by Geller

remote viewing experiments

pyramid power

quantum mechanics

alternative medicine and

parapsychology and

Rand, Tamara

Randi, James

dowsing study

on faith healers

on Geller

on Nature study team

Project Alpha created by

Resch investigation

therapeutic touch study

random event studies

reaction formation

reaction time studies

Reagan assassination attempt, predicted

rebirthing

recovered memories

disastrous results of

of sexual abuse

through guided imagery

through hypnosis

unreliability of

regression to the mean, therapeutic efficacy and

Reich, Wilhelm

reincarnation

hoaxes

hypnosis and

linguistic investigations

relics

religion, spiritualism attacked by

remote viewing experiments

procedure

transcripts

replication

cold fusion attempts

failures in parapsychological studies

failures in Rhine studies

importance of

repression

infant amnesia theory

lack of evidence for

studies validating

See also recovered memories

Resch, Tina, poltergeist hoax

retrieval cues, for dreams

Rhine, J. B.

Rhine studies

procedural flaws

replication failures

rhythms, biological

variability

See also biorhythm theory

Richard, Albion

Rines, Robert

risk ratios

Rivera, Geraldo

Robbins, Tony

Robertson, Morgan

Robertson, Pat

Rogers, Martha

Rogo, Scott

Roll, William

Roman Catholic Church, on Lourdes miracles

Rorschach tests

Rosa study

Roswell incident

Samisdat

Santa Claus

sasquatch

Satanic Panic. See also McMartin Preschool case

Schacter, Daniel

Schiaparelli, Giovanni

schizophrenia

Schmidt, Helmut

Schmidt, Steven

science

burden of proof

change inherent in

junk

legal system and

pseudoscience with

replication importance

responsibility of toward pseudoscience

specialization, working outside

Science Digest (magazine), UFO photos in

science fiction, abduction themes in

scientific mistakes

characteristics of

cold fusion

N rays

polywater

seance. See also spiritualism

seizures

self-actualization

Serios, Ted

700 Club (TV show)

Seventh-day Adventists

sexual abuse

McMartin Preschool case

Paul Ingram case

recovered memories of

reported through facilitated communication

sexual development

Freud’s theories of

Oedipus complex

toilet training and

See also homosexuality

Shackleton, Basil

shamans. See faith healers

Shaw, Steve

shrines, miracle cures at

Shroud of Turin

Siberia, Tunguska event in

sick building syndrome (SBS)

Sirius star system, visitors from

Sister Grace

60 Minutes (TV show)

size constancy

sleight of hand

in faith healing

psychic surgery as

thought pictures

Smith, Hélène

Soal, S. C.

Soal studies

Society for Psychical Research (SPR)

sodium pentothol

solar system, Velikovsky’s theories of

Spaulding, William

speaking in tongues

spiritualism

burden of proof

dissociative states and

failure of

modern campgrounds for

origins

religious attacks on

See also life after death; mediums; psychics

spontaneous regression

defined

therapeutic efficacy and

spoons, bent by Geller

Sprinkle, Leo

St. John’s wort, and depression

stalled cars, as UFO effect

stamp hoax, Mars face stamp

Stanford Research Institute (SRI)

star map, Betty Hill’s

statistical analysis

of astrology

of biorhythm studies

in research studies

for therapeutic efficacy

Stevenson, Ian

stock spiels, in cold readings

Stokes, Doris

streak shooting phenomenon

Strieber, Whitley

suicides, biorhythms and

sun signs

compatibility and

personality and

superego

surgery, psychic

symbolic interpretation

Freud’s penchant for

of history

Jung’s interest in

of literature

nonfalsifiability of

role of

Velikovsy’s

symptom substitution hypothesis

synchronicity

and coincidence

Jung’s interest in

table moving. See also spiritualism

Talbot, Nathan

tape recorders, dead heard on

Targ, Russell

deceived by Geller

remote viewing experiments

tarot cards

Tart, Charles

Taylor, Charles C.

Taylor, John

telepathy. See ESP (extra-sensory perception)

Teltscher, Alfred

Temple, Robert

temporary mass hypochondria (TMH)

causes of

environmental agents and. See environmental agents

testimonials

for facilitated communication

for faith healers

therapeutic touch

human energy fields and

limited studies of

Rosa study

study flaws

theory of

thermal conductivity, firewalking and

thought pictures

tidal forces, and astrology

Tighe, Virginia

Titanic (oceanliner), predictions regarding

toilet training, Freud’s emphasis on

Tourette’s syndrome

trances, dissociative states and

transcendental meditation

transmission hypothesis

Trent UFO photos

Trudel, Harold

Tunguska event

Turin, Shroud of

Tutankhamen’s tomb

UFO cover-ups

absurdity of

alien autopsies

CIA files released

media coverage

MJ-12 documents

Roswell

UFO cults

UFO films

UFO organizations

poor investigations by

UFO photographs, fake

Barauna

controlled

ease of creating

Gulf Breeze

Heflin

Trent

UFO sightings

by astronauts

burden of proof

and constructive perception

controlled hoaxes

meteors and celestial bodies

in 1952

in 1968

visual illusions and

Westchester County hoax

UFOs (unidentified flying objects)

air force and

belief in

cattle mutilation and

and Flight 19 disappearance

fundamentalists and

Nazis and

physical evidence

as post-WWII phenomenon

Tunguska event

See also alien abductions; ancient astronauts; close encounters

unconscious

collective

in psychoanalytic theory

Uranus, discovery of

urine therapy