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Future historians will recognize that the cultural hegemony of science came seriously into question in the second half of the 20th century, with manifold consequences. ... (6 pages, 14 references)
An amazing thing happened to me last week. I was on a call with some colleagues working to put a paper into shape for publication, when one of them asserted that 114 = 154. Not only that, but knowing that I am a biostatistician, he then invoked a statistical argument to back up his claim. I was so surprised that it started me thinking (once again) about how it is that the discipline of statistics permits people not only to believe things that are patently false, but actually to make intellectual-sounding arguments in support of them. And so I put down my pen on the topic that was planned for this space and started on what you are reading now. ... (8 pages)
So, Mr. Clark, have you yourself ever had an encounter with something weird that you couldn't explain?
One pleasant summer evening in 2000, I pulled up in front of our house.
I had been working late at the office I then rented for my writing projects.
It was an average day, an ordinary 11 p.m. in our tranquil life in a small Minnesota town far from anywhere except the South Dakota border eight miles to the west.
Then I noticed something on the landing at the top of the front steps...
(12 pages, 20 notes)
Abstract -- Monitoring biofields around living organisms can provide information about the system, its state of health and how it is healing. Experimental evidence gathered by various researchers since the 1920s indicates that biophotonic emission (light) plays an important role in certain biological functions and processes. Advances in low-noise, cooled, highly-sensitive CCD (charge-coupled device) cameras essentially able to count photons over thousands to millions of pixels have made it possible to image biophoton emission in completely darkened chambers. Images of biofields can now be recorded and changes can be monitored over time. This paper reviews 2-1/2 years of research studies we have performed to develop biophoton imaging instrumentation for monitoring biofields around living organisms yielding quantitative information about their state of health and how they are healing. All but one of the experiments presented in thes paper involves plants as subjects enabling a much larger subject sample and the ability to carefully test instrumentation and methodology. Because it is possible to pinpoint an area in an image and quantify the biophoton emission using the techniques presented in the paper, it is possible to create assyas using plants to aid in determining healer efficacy and potentially to determine dosage.
Keywords: biophoton emission, biophoton imaging, biological chemiluminescence, bio-communication.
(Synopsis: 3 page commentary regarding an article by Professor David Deming in the Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 19 Number 2. 12 references. Final paragraph follows)
Professor Deming is correct in bringing our attention to the politicization of the global warming debate. This shoe, however, fits both political feet.
The recent essay by David Deming ("Global warming, the politicization of science, and Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" (JSE Volume 19, Number 2, pages 247-256) brings up the perennial question of where the burden of proof lies in scientific disputes: with established scientits or those who challenge the establishment. It woud seem that the burden of proof should always fall on the challenger, but this is not necessarily the case. For example, Deming challenges the establishment position that human activity is a significant factor in climate change by contending that, since warming has occurred repeatedly during Earth's history, it is up to the meteorological community to provide virtually absolute proof that natural variaability is not sufficient to explain it. ... (6-1/2 pages)
As a person who appeared on the show, perhaps my perspective can add a small bit to the fine reviews by Bernie Haisch and Dick Hall.... (1-1/2 page plus 1-page commentary by Henry H Bauer, Editor of the Journal of Scientific Exploration)
Abstract-- "AIDS" was first noted around 1980 in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, among gay men and drug addicts. In 1984 came discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), presumed to be the sexually transmitted cause of AIDS. Given an apparent latent period of about 10 years, HIV is thought to have arrived in those communities around 1970. Since 1985, tests for HIV have been widely depoloyed to detect its anticipated spread into other social groups and geographic locales.
HIV-positive people were found in every sector of society and in every part of the United States as soon as testing began. That HIV could have spread so reapidly into the general population across the country from those cities within 15 years is infeasible for several reasons:
The conclusion seems inescapable: HIV tests do not track a virus that spread from the original centers of the AIDS epidemic. HIV is endemic. It is not the cause of the AIDS epidemics of the early 1980s.
Keywords: HIV geography, HIV spread, HIV tests, HIV/AIDS, AIDS
(38 pages, 12 maps, 6 graphs, 1 chart, 115 references, 4 page appendix)
This review of an exceptional book is also an excuse for presenting some concerns about the difficulties that the scientific community is facing owing to the upsurge momentum about the theory of Intelligent Design (ID). Because of the hot-button nature of the ID situation, I ask readers to bear with me on a brief self-centered statement, designed (intelligently?) to clear the boards as to where this reviewer stands. ... (6-1/2 pages)
This site is devoted to "Cosmic Ancestry", the hypothesis that (1) life on Earth was seeded from space, and (2) that macroevolution depends on genetic programs of extraterrestrial origin. (1-1/2 pages)