The "Hundredth Monkey" is the name for a supposed phenomenon in which a particular learned behaviour spread instantaneously from one group of animals, once a critical number was reached, to all related animals in the region or perhaps throughout the world. Largely due to popularisation of this story, the "Hundredth Monkey" phenomenon is now thought by many to occur in human populations with respect to ideas and beliefs in general even thoug ...

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The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, or CSICOP, is an organization formed to encourage open minded, critical investigation of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims from a responsible, scientific point of view. It is a nonprofit organization, founded in 1976 by Paul Kurtz. Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal - Activities. According to CSICOP's charter, the organization exists to pursue six major goals: Maintain a n ...

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• Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal - Skeptical Inquirer
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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 ...

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Project Alpha, Project Alpha - Peter Phillips' experiments, Project Alpha - Steve Shaw and Michael Edwards, Project Alpha - Revelation and aftermath, Project Alpha - External articles

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Some ufologists have argued that an alien craft crashed near Roswell and that several alien bodies were also recovered. However, skeptics and the United States Air Force have offered a number of other more earthly explanations. Roswell UFO incident - Conventional theories. Under pressure from a Congressional General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation initiated by New Mexico Congressmen Steven Schiff, the Air Force in 1994/95 presented evidence that the crash was actually that of a lost P ...

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Some ufologists have argued that an alien craft crashed near Roswell and that several alien bodies were also recovered. However, skeptics and the United States Air Force have offered a number of other more earthly explanations. Roswell UFO incident - Conventional theories. Under pressure from a Congressional General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation initiated by New Mexico Congressmen Steven Schiff, the Air Force in 1994/95 presented evidence that the crash was actually that of a lost P ...

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According to CSICOP's charter, the organization exists to pursue six major goals: Maintain a network of people interested in critically examining paranormal, fringe science, and other claims, and in contributing to consumer education. Prepare bibliographies of published materials that carefully examine such claims. Encourage research by objective and impartial inquiry in areas where it is needed. Convene conferences and meetings. Publish articles that examine claims of the paranormal. Do not reject claims ...

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Category:Science writers - Subcategories. Category:Science writers - A. Isaac Asimov Category:Science writers - E. Entomological writers Category:Science writers - H. Robert A. Heinlein Category:Science writers - N. Science writers by nationality Category:Science writers - O. Ornithological writers ...

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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 ...

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Marcello Truzzi, Marcello Truzzi - Biography, Marcello Truzzi - Books by Truzzi, Marcello Truzzi - Obituaries, Marcello Truzzi - External articles and references

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The Roswell incident received little mainstream attention until 1978, when researchers Stanton T. Friedman and William L. Moore compared notes from a series of interviews each had conducted independently. Roswell UFO incident - Lydia Sleppy and Jesse Marcel interview. Friedman and Moore interviewed Lydia Sleppy, a teletype operator who worked at an Albuquerque, New Mexico, radio station in 1947, and United States Air Force Lt. Colonel Jesse A. Marcel (ret.), chief intelligence officer at Roswell base in 19 ...

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In 2005, researcher Nick Redfern published his theory, detailed above, of horrible military experiments involving human guinea pigs that led to the Roswell incident, and claimed this lay at the heart of the high secrecy and subsequent coverup. Another important recent development concerns attempts to read the text on a paper held by Gen. Ramey in a photo taken with Col. Dubose and the displayed balloon debris photo above. A Roswell investigator named David Rudiak, as well as some other examiners of the message, claim to have identifie ...

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Roswell UFO incident - Incident. On June 24, 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing disc- or saucer-shaped objects flying at high speed near Mt. Rainier in Washington state. In the days thereafter, hundreds of reports of the new "flying saucers" (or "flying disks") appeared in newspapers across the United States. During the first week of July 1947, rancher William "Mack" Brazel discovered a large amount of unusual debris scattered widely over his ranch about 75 miles northwest of Roswell. Neighbors tol ...

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On July 8, 1947 a secret teletype message was sent from the FBI office in Dallas, Texas to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and to the FBI office in Cincinnati, Ohio (the closest FBI office to Wright Field). Decades later the message was released through the Freedom of Information Act. It is the only government document on the Roswell case that has ever been found or publicly released. Major "Curtan" in the messages is a misspelling of the name of Major Edwin Kirton, one of Gen. Ramey's intelligence officers. Kirton also spoke with Reuters news agency and the Dallas Morning News and gave them somewhat differ ...

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Today, UFO tourism provides a major income for people around Roswell. The 1947 incident has been featured in many books, comics, movies and television series. In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Little Green Men", the craft had come from the 24th century, and the aliens were the Ferengi characters Quark, Rom, and Nog. Similarly, in Futurama episode "Roswell That Ends Well", the characters came from the 31st century, and the captured alien was Dr. Zoidberg. In 1994 the TV film Roswell was made starring Kyle MacLachlan and Martin Sheen. It featured MacLachlan as Jesse Marce ...

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Brazel related that on June 14 he and an 8-year old son, Vernon, were about 7 or 8 miles from the ranch house of the J. B. Foster ranch, which he operates, when they came upon a large area of bright wreckage made up on rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks. At the time Brazel was in a hurry to get his round made and he did not pay much attention to it. But he did remark about what he had seen and on July 4 he, his wife, Vernon and a daughter, Betty, age 14, went back to the spot and gathered up quite a bit of the debris. The next day he first heard about the fly ...

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Brazel related that on June 14 he and an 8-year old son, Vernon, were about 7 or 8 miles from the ranch house of the J. B. Foster ranch, which he operates, when they came upon a large area of bright wreckage made up on rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks. At the time Brazel was in a hurry to get his round made and he did not pay much attention to it. But he did remark about what he had seen and on July 4 he, his wife, Vernon and a daughter, Betty, age 14, went back to the spot and gathered up quite a bit of the debris. The next day he first heard about the fly ...

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The Roswell incident received little mainstream attention until 1978, when researchers Stanton T. Friedman and William L. Moore compared notes from a series of interviews each had conducted independently. Roswell UFO incident - Lydia Sleppy and Jesse Marcel interview. Friedman and Moore interviewed Lydia Sleppy, a teletype operator who worked at an Albuquerque, New Mexico, radio station in 1947, and United States Air Force Lt. Colonel Jesse A. Marcel (ret.), chief intelligence officer at Roswell base in 19 ...

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