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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal | | | |  Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Encyclopedia II - Chemtrail theory - OverviewThe chemtrail theory apparently first achieved prominence in mid-to-late 1990s ([1], [2]). Chemtrails have been discussed on radio programs hosted by Art Bell and Jeff Rense, who frequently deal with other paranormal and conspiratorial topics. According to a FAQ posted at the Rense website, "chemtrails (CTs) look like contrails initially, but are much thicker, extend across the sky and are often laid down in varying patterns of Xs, tick-tack-toe grids, cross-hatched and parallel lines. Instead of quickly dissipating, chemtrails expand and dr ...
See also:Chemtrail theory, Chemtrail theory - Overview, Chemtrail theory - Skeptical response, Chemtrail theory - Similar phenomena Read more here: » Chemtrail theory: Encyclopedia II - Chemtrail theory - Overview |
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| | | | | Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Encyclopedia II - List of atheists - Influential or outspoken atheists
List of atheists - Living.
Phillip Adams (1939-) - Australian broadcaster, writer, film-maker, left-wing radical thinker, iconoclast, Australian Humanist of the Year 1987.
Woody Allen (1935-) - American filmmaker, actor and writer.
Ingmar Bergman (1918-) - Swedish film director and playwright.
George Carlin (1937-) - American comedian, actor and author, wrote a number of monologues about the non-existence of God.
André Comte-Sponville (1952-) - French materialist philoso ...
See also:List of atheists, List of atheists - Influential or outspoken atheists, List of atheists - Living, List of atheists - Dead, List of atheists - Classical, List of atheists - Other atheists, List of atheists - Living, List of atheists - Dead Read more here: » List of atheists: Encyclopedia II - List of atheists - Influential or outspoken atheists |
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| | | | | Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Encyclopedia II - Famous people from Buffalo NY - Authors Several well known authors emerged from here, including Paul Horgan, Joyce Carol Oates, Taylor Caldwell, and playwrights Ruben Santiago-Hudson ("Lackawanna Blues") and A.R. Gurney (The Dining Room and Love Letters).
Mark Twain lived in Buffalo as a part-owner and managing editor of The Buffalo Express from 1869 to 1871. While not technically a Buffalonian, he's remembered by his readers for his time in Buffalo due to his stories "A Day at Niagara Falls" and "The Diaries of Adam and Eve", the ...
See also:Famous people from Buffalo NY, Famous people from Buffalo NY - Authors, Famous people from Buffalo NY - Entertainers, Famous people from Buffalo NY - Politics and law, Famous people from Buffalo NY - Other residents, Famous people from Buffalo NY - Sports, Famous people from Buffalo NY - Sports names, Famous people from Buffalo NY - Buffalo companies, Famous people from Buffalo NY - Infamous Buffalo people and events, Famous people from Buffalo NY - Other events and trivia Read more here: » Famous people from Buffalo NY: Encyclopedia II - Famous people from Buffalo NY - Authors |
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| | | | | Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Encyclopedia II - Marcello Truzzi - Biography Truzzi was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His family, a group of circus performers, moved to the United States in 1944. His father, Massimiliano Truzzi, was an outstanding juggler. Marcello served in the United States Army between 1958 and 1960. He became a naturalized citizen in 1961.
Truzzi was a skeptic's skeptic and investigator of various protosciences and pseudosciences. He is credited with originatating the often-used phrase "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof". However, this is a rewording of the principle of Laplace which says "The weight of evidence for an extrordinary claim ...
See also:Marcello Truzzi, Marcello Truzzi - Biography, Marcello Truzzi - Books by Truzzi, Marcello Truzzi - Obituaries, Marcello Truzzi - External articles and references Read more here: » Marcello Truzzi: Encyclopedia II - Marcello Truzzi - Biography |
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| | | | | Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Encyclopedia II - Travis Walton abduction - Travis in the UFO In his survey of UFO abduction literature, Terry Matheson writes that "Walton’s experience stands out by virtue of its not being particularly bizarre as far as abduction accounts go." (Matheson, 111-112)
Travis reported that after approaching the UFO near the work site, the last thing he remembered was being struck by the beam of light. When he woke, Travis said he was on a reclined bed. A bright light shone above him, and the air was heavy and wet. He was in pain, and had some trouble breathing ...
See also:Travis Walton abduction, Travis Walton abduction - Background, Travis Walton abduction - The Encounter, Travis Walton abduction - The Search, Travis Walton abduction - Publicity, Travis Walton abduction - Polygraph, Travis Walton abduction - Walton’s Return, Travis Walton abduction - The Medical Exam, Travis Walton abduction - Travis’s Return Makes the News, Travis Walton abduction - Travis in the UFO, Travis Walton abduction - Controversy, Travis Walton abduction - Later Years, Travis Walton abduction - An Independent Witness?, Travis Walton abduction - Sources, Travis Walton abduction - External link Read more here: » Travis Walton abduction: Encyclopedia II - Travis Walton abduction - Travis in the UFO |
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| | | | | | | Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Encyclopedia II - Bill Nye - Biography Bill Nye was born in Washington, D.C. in 1955. He attended the Sidwell Friends School, graduating in 1973. Later he attended Cornell University's Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, where he studied under Carl Sagan and graduated in 1977 with a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering. Nye began his career at Boeing where, among other things, he developed a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor still use ...
See also:Bill Nye, Bill Nye - Biography, Bill Nye - The Science Guy, Bill Nye - Other achievements, Bill Nye - Scientific, Bill Nye - Entertainment, Bill Nye - Other Read more here: » Bill Nye: Encyclopedia II - Bill Nye - Biography |
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| | | | | Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Encyclopedia II - Ufology - Hypotheses involving the objective existence of UFO's These hypotheses speculate that the phenomena derives wholly or in part from a phenomena, rather than the mind of the observer.
Ufology - The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis.
The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) theorizes that some UFO sightings are alien spacecraft. See separate article.
A sub-theory, the Staging Hypothesis, prevalent up until the 1980s, speculated that extraterrestrials have "stage-managed" encounters as a deliberate policy to "educate" humanity. This theory has fallen out of f ...
See also:Ufology, Ufology - Hypotheses involving the objective existence of UFO's, Ufology - The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis, Ufology - The advanced human aircraft hypothesis, Ufology - The Interdimensional Hypothesis a.k.a. Cosmic Trickster Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis, Ufology - Sky Critter Hypothesis, Ufology - UFO's as perception or illusion, Ufology - The natural explanation hypothesis, Ufology - Psychosocial Hypothesis, Ufology - Groups Involved with Ufology, Ufology - UFO Researchers, Ufology - Sources Read more here: » Ufology: Encyclopedia II - Ufology - Hypotheses involving the objective existence of UFO's |
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| | | | | Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Encyclopedia II - Project Alpha - Steve Shaw and Michael Edwards Throughout the early phases of the project, many people claiming to have psychic powers presented themselves to the lab. The vast majority quickly proved to have no such ability, or, just as commonly, used sleight of hand to make their "abilities" work. However, after a short while it became apparent that two of the young men, Steve Shaw and Michael Edwards, were in fact much better than the others, and the lab started to focus their energies on them.
In fact, the two young men were "plants" of Randi's, friends of Randi whom he had me ...
See also:Project Alpha, Project Alpha - Peter Phillips' experiments, Project Alpha - Steve Shaw and Michael Edwards, Project Alpha - Revelation and aftermath, Project Alpha - External articles Read more here: » Project Alpha: Encyclopedia II - Project Alpha - Steve Shaw and Michael Edwards |
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| | | | | Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Encyclopedia II - Skepticism - Religious and Scientific Skepticism Religious skepticism and scientific skepticism are not actually related to philosophical Skepticism. Most people who are skeptical of claims of the paranormal and supernatural are not adherents of classical philosophical Skepticism. Where as a philosophical Skeptic may deny the very existence of knowledge, a religious or scientific skeptic merely seeks proof before accepting extraordinary claims. Scientific skeptics employ critical thinking.
Religious skeptics often focus on the core tenets of religions, such as the existence of divin ...
See also:Skepticism, Skepticism - Spelling, Skepticism - Philosophical skepticism, Skepticism - Religious and Scientific Skepticism, Skepticism - Skeptics and cynics, Skepticism - Debunkers, Skepticism - Scientific Skepticism as Inertia, Skepticism - Quotations, Skepticism - Religious and Scientific Skepticism, Skepticism - Famous skeptics, Skepticism - Essays on famous skeptics, Skepticism - Organizations dedicated to skepticism, Skepticism - TV shows and documentaries based upon skepticism Read more here: » Skepticism: Encyclopedia II - Skepticism - Religious and Scientific Skepticism |
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| | | | | Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Encyclopedia II - Carl Sagan - Education and scientific career Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York[1]. His parents were Jewish; his father, Sam Sagan, was a garment worker and his mother, Rachel Molly Gruber, was a housewife. Sagan attended the University of Chicago, where he received a bachelor's degree (1955) and a master's degree (1956) in physics, before earning his doctorate (1960) in astronomy and astrophysics.
In the early 1960s, no one knew for certain even the basic conditions of the surfa ...
See also:Carl Sagan, Carl Sagan - Education and scientific career, Carl Sagan - Scientific achievements, Carl Sagan - Scientific advocacy, Carl Sagan - Social concerns, Carl Sagan - Popularization of science, Carl Sagan - Personality, Carl Sagan - Legacy, Carl Sagan - Awards and medals, Carl Sagan - Related books and media Read more here: » Carl Sagan: Encyclopedia II - Carl Sagan - Education and scientific career |
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| | | | | | Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Encyclopedia II - Parapsychology - How science views the field In the scientific disciplines there is a belief that all claims should be treated with scientific skepticism. Mainstream science believes that after examining psi claims for over a century, there has been significant difficulty in merging the results of parapsychology studies with other fields of science. A growing network of scientists — in association with the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which was founded by American Astronaut, Dr. Edgar Mitchell — is seeking to bridge t ...
See also:Parapsychology, Parapsychology - Types of parapsychology, Parapsychology - Status of the field, Parapsychology - How science views the field, Parapsychology - Interpretation of the evidence, Parapsychology - Criticisms of parapsychological research, Parapsychology - Responses from parapsychologists to criticisms, Parapsychology - Early Scientific American challenge, Parapsychology - Other objections to parapsychology, Parapsychology - History and evaluation, Parapsychology - Trivia, Parapsychology - Famous parapsychologists, Parapsychology - Well-known psychic mediums, Parapsychology - Other claimed psychics, Parapsychology - Critics of parapsychology, Parapsychology - Independent research organizations, Parapsychology - University research organizations, Parapsychology - External links Read more here: » Parapsychology: Encyclopedia II - Parapsychology - How science views the field |
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| | | | | Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Encyclopedia II - Parapsychology - How science views the field In the scientific disciplines there is a belief that all claims should be treated with scientific skepticism. Mainstream science believes that after examining psi claims for over a century, there has been significant difficulty in merging the results of parapsychology studies with other fields of science. As a result, many in the scientific community think that parapsychology is not a real science, that psi phenomena do not exist, and that parapsychology is a pseudoscience. Many scientists and skeptical observers of the field believe that so ...
See also:Parapsychology, Parapsychology - Types of parapsychology, Parapsychology - Status of the field, Parapsychology - How science views the field, Parapsychology - Interpretation of the evidence, Parapsychology - Criticisms of parapsychological research, Parapsychology - Responses from parapsychologists to criticisms, Parapsychology - Early Scientific American challenge, Parapsychology - Other objections to parapsychology, Parapsychology - History and evaluation, Parapsychology - Trivia, Parapsychology - Famous parapsychologists, Parapsychology - Claimed psychics, Parapsychology - Critics of parapsychology, Parapsychology - Psychic investigations, Parapsychology - General organizations, Parapsychology - Independent research organizations, Parapsychology - University research organizations, Parapsychology - External links Read more here: » Parapsychology: Encyclopedia II - Parapsychology - How science views the field |
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| | | | | Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Encyclopedia II - Parapsychology - Responses from parapsychologists to criticisms The opinion of parapsychologists regarding the overall evaluation of the body of evidence to date is divided. As noted above, some parapsychologists are skeptic and do not believe that there is anything observed so far which cannot ultimately be explained within the existing framework of known science. Probably a majority of parapsychologists believe in the likelihood, or at least the possibility, of actual psi phenomena, though there is a range of attitudes toward the evidence.
Regarding the evidence, the rule of the thumb of the ske ...
See also:Parapsychology, Parapsychology - Types of parapsychology, Parapsychology - Status of the field, Parapsychology - How science views the field, Parapsychology - Interpretation of the evidence, Parapsychology - Criticisms of parapsychological research, Parapsychology - Responses from parapsychologists to criticisms, Parapsychology - Early Scientific American challenge, Parapsychology - Other objections to parapsychology, Parapsychology - History and evaluation, Parapsychology - Trivia, Parapsychology - Famous parapsychologists, Parapsychology - Well-known psychic mediums, Parapsychology - Other claimed psychics, Parapsychology - Critics of parapsychology, Parapsychology - Independent research organizations, Parapsychology - University research organizations, Parapsychology - External links Read more here: » Parapsychology: Encyclopedia II - Parapsychology - Responses from parapsychologists to criticisms |
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| | | | | Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Encyclopedia II - Parapsychology - Other objections to parapsychology There are a variety of other objections to parapsychology as well.
Psi Phenomena as a Violation of the Laws of Physics or Nature
Some critics claim that the existence of psi phenomena would violate "the known laws of physics", and some of these critics believe that this is reason enough that such phenomena should not be studied. Parapsychologists respond that "laws of nature" are simply summaries of existing scientific knowledge and do get revised from time to time during the course of scientific progress, in ...
See also:Parapsychology, Parapsychology - Types of parapsychology, Parapsychology - Status of the field, Parapsychology - How science views the field, Parapsychology - Interpretation of the evidence, Parapsychology - Criticisms of parapsychological research, Parapsychology - Responses from parapsychologists to criticisms, Parapsychology - Early Scientific American challenge, Parapsychology - Other objections to parapsychology, Parapsychology - History and evaluation, Parapsychology - Trivia, Parapsychology - Famous parapsychologists, Parapsychology - Well-known psychic mediums, Parapsychology - Other claimed psychics, Parapsychology - Critics of parapsychology, Parapsychology - Independent research organizations, Parapsychology - University research organizations, Parapsychology - External links Read more here: » Parapsychology: Encyclopedia II - Parapsychology - Other objections to parapsychology |
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| | | | | Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Encyclopedia II - Parapsychology - Famous parapsychologists
The following are famous primarily for fields other than parapsychology but still had important working interests in the field:
Hans Eysenck
Alister Hardy
Carl Jung
Arthur Koestler
Rupert Sheldrake
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See also:Parapsychology, Parapsychology - Types of parapsychology, Parapsychology - Status of the field, Parapsychology - How science views the field, Parapsychology - Interpretation of the evidence, Parapsychology - Criticisms of parapsychological research, Parapsychology - Responses from parapsychologists to criticisms, Parapsychology - Early Scientific American challenge, Parapsychology - Other objections to parapsychology, Parapsychology - History and evaluation, Parapsychology - Trivia, Parapsychology - Famous parapsychologists, Parapsychology - Well-known psychic mediums, Parapsychology - Other claimed psychics, Parapsychology - Critics of parapsychology, Parapsychology - Independent research organizations, Parapsychology - University research organizations, Parapsychology - External links Read more here: » Parapsychology: Encyclopedia II - Parapsychology - Famous parapsychologists |
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| | | | | Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Encyclopedia II - Travis Walton abduction - Travis’s Return Makes the News By afternoon Monday, word of Travis’s return had leaked out to the public. Duane took a telephone call from Spaulding, and told Spaulding not to bother the family again. Clark writes that after this telephone call, "Spaulding became a sworn enemy in the case." (Clark 363)
Among the other telephone calls after news of Travis’s return was one from Carol Lorenzen of APRO, a civilian UFO research group. She promised Duane that she could arrange an examination for Travis by two medical doctors--general practitioner Joseph Saults and pediatrician Howard Kande ...
See also:Travis Walton abduction, Travis Walton abduction - Background, Travis Walton abduction - The Encounter, Travis Walton abduction - The Search, Travis Walton abduction - Publicity, Travis Walton abduction - Polygraph, Travis Walton abduction - Walton’s Return, Travis Walton abduction - The Medical Exam, Travis Walton abduction - Travis’s Return Makes the News, Travis Walton abduction - Travis in the UFO, Travis Walton abduction - Controversy, Travis Walton abduction - Later Years, Travis Walton abduction - An Independent Witness?, Travis Walton abduction - Sources, Travis Walton abduction - External link Read more here: » Travis Walton abduction: Encyclopedia II - Travis Walton abduction - Travis’s Return Makes the News |
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| | | | | Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Encyclopedia II - Travis Walton abduction - Controversy In the meantime, Spaulding had announced to the press that he and "Dr." Steward had questioned Walton for two hours, and had uncovered inconsistencies in Walton’s account that would "Blow this story out". (Clark, 637) The Phoenix Gazette ran a story about Steward, who related his claims that the "Waltons fear exposure" of a carefully-crafted lie. (Clark, 638)
Sheriff Gillespire arranged for a polygraph, but when word of the exam was leaked to the press, Duane canceled it, thinking that Gillespie had broken his promise to keep the te ...
See also:Travis Walton abduction, Travis Walton abduction - Background, Travis Walton abduction - The Encounter, Travis Walton abduction - The Search, Travis Walton abduction - Publicity, Travis Walton abduction - Polygraph, Travis Walton abduction - Walton’s Return, Travis Walton abduction - The Medical Exam, Travis Walton abduction - Travis’s Return Makes the News, Travis Walton abduction - Travis in the UFO, Travis Walton abduction - Controversy, Travis Walton abduction - Later Years, Travis Walton abduction - An Independent Witness?, Travis Walton abduction - Sources, Travis Walton abduction - External link Read more here: » Travis Walton abduction: Encyclopedia II - Travis Walton abduction - Controversy |
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| | | | | Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Encyclopedia II - Travis Walton abduction - Later Years 1978 saw the publication of two books related to the Walton case:
Bill Barry’s The Ultimate Encounter, which argues that the various debunkers, especially Klass, did not make persuasive cases, and that Travis and the others related events more or less as they believed they’d happened;
Travis Walton’s own The Walton Experience, which outlined his own narrative of the UFO event and its aftermath. (Following the film adaptation of this book, Walton would retitle his volume Fire In The Sky, and expand it, mainly to rebut ...
See also:Travis Walton abduction, Travis Walton abduction - Background, Travis Walton abduction - The Encounter, Travis Walton abduction - The Search, Travis Walton abduction - Publicity, Travis Walton abduction - Polygraph, Travis Walton abduction - Walton’s Return, Travis Walton abduction - The Medical Exam, Travis Walton abduction - Travis’s Return Makes the News, Travis Walton abduction - Travis in the UFO, Travis Walton abduction - Controversy, Travis Walton abduction - Later Years, Travis Walton abduction - An Independent Witness?, Travis Walton abduction - Sources, Travis Walton abduction - External link Read more here: » Travis Walton abduction: Encyclopedia II - Travis Walton abduction - Later Years |
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