Fringe-ology (38 page)

H. Walach et al., “Transferred Potentials—Fact or Artifact? Results of a Pilot Study. In Bridging Worlds and Filling Gaps in the Science of Healing,”
Samueli Institute for Information Biology
(2001): 303–25.

E. C. May et al., “EEG Correlates to Remote Light Flashes Under Conditions of Sensory Shielding,”
Mind at Large: IEEE Symposia on the Nature of Extrasensory Perception
(Hampton Roads, 2002).

S. Kalitzin et al., “Comments on ‘Correlations Between Brain Electrical Activities of Two Spatially Separated Human Subjects,' ”
Neuroscience Letters
350, no. 3 (October 30, 2003): 193–94.

L. Standish et al., “Evidence of Correlated Functional MRI Signals Between Distant Human Brains,”
Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
9 (2003): 122–28.

J. Wackermann et al., “Correlations Between Brain Electrical Activities of Two Spatially Separated Human Subjects. Reply to the Commentary by S. Kalitzin and P. Suffczynski,”
Neuroscience Letters
350, no. 3 (2003): 193–94.

J. Wackerman, et al., “Correlations Between Brain Electrical Activities of Two Spatially Separated Human Subjects,”
Neuroscience Letters
336 no. 1 (2003): 60–64.

U. Hasson, “Intersubject Synchronization of Cortical Activity During Natural Vision,”
Science
303 (2004): 1634–40.

M. Kittenis et al., “Distant Psychophysiological Interaction Effects Between Related and Unrelated Participants,”
Proceedings of the Parapsychological Association Convention
(Vienna, Austria, August 5–8, 2004): 67–76.

Dean Radin, “Event-Related Electroencephalographic Correlations Between Isolated Human Subjects,”
Journal
of
Alternative and Complementary Medicine
10 no. 2 (2004): 315–23.

L. Standish et al. “Electroencephalographic Evidence of Correlated Event-Related Signals Between the Brains of Spatially and Sensory Isolated Human Subjects,”
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
10, no. 2 (2004): 307–14.

S. Schmidt, “Distant Intentionality and the Feeling of Being Stared At: Two Meta-Analyses
,” British Journal of Psychology
95 (2004): 235–47.

J. Wackerman, “Dyadic Correlations Between Brain Functional States: Present Facts and Future Perspectives,”
Mind and Matter
2, no.1 (2004): 105–22.

J. Achterberg et al., “Evidence for Correlations Between Distant Intentionality and Brain Function in Recipients: a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Analysis,”
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
11, no. 6 (2005): 965–71.

T. L. Richards et al., “Replicable Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Evidence of Correlated Brain Signals Between Physically and Sensory Isolated Subjects,”
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
11, no. 6 (2005): 955–63.

S. T. Moulton et al., “Using Neuro-Imaging to Resolve the psi Debate,”
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
20, no. 1 (2008): 182–92.

Michael Persinger et al., “Enhanced Power Within a Predicted Narrow Band of Theta Activity During Stimulation of Another by Circumcerebral Weak Magnetic Fields After Weekly Spatial Proximity: Evidence for Macroscopic Quantum Entanglement?”
NeuroQuantology
6, no. 1 (2008): 7–21.

B. T. Dotta, “Evidence of Macroscopic Quantum Entanglement During Double Quantitative Electroencephalographic Measurements of Friends vs Strangers,”
NeuroQuantology
7, no. 4 (2009): 548–51.

Sam Harris,
The End of Faith
(Norton, 2004): 41.

Michael Persinger, Interview, June 2009.

Michael Persinger, “The Harribance Effect as Pervasive Out-of-Body Experiences: NeuroQuantal Evidence with More Precise Measurements,” 8, no. 4 (2010): 444–465.

Jessica Utts, Interview, August 2009.
Author's note:
Utts believes the PK tests reflect precognition—not the mental manipulation of matter, as PK enthusiasts claim.

Jessica Utts,
Seeing Through Statistics
(Brooks/Cole, 1999).

Marcello Truzzi, “On Some Unfair Practices Towards Claims of the Paranormal,”
Oxymoron: Annual Thematic Anthology of the Arts and Sciences
,
Vol. 2: The Fringe
(Oxymoron Media, 1998). Accessed October 26, 2010, http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/Anomali/practices.html

David Hume, “Of Miracles,”
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
(Filiquarian Publishing, 2007): 104.

Ray Hyman, “The Evidence for Psychic Functioning: Claims vs. Reality,”
Skeptical Inquirer
20, no. 2 (March/April, 1996), accessed October 26, 2010, http://www.csicop.org/si/show/evidence_for_psychic_functioning_claims_vs._reality/

Trevor Pinch, Interview, September 2009.

Trevor J. Pinch, “Normal Explanations of the Paranormal,”
Social Studies of Science
9 (1979): 329–48.

Trevor Pinch, “Private Science and Public Knowledge: The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of the Claims of the Paranormal and Its Use of the Literature,”
Social Studies of Science
14, (1984): 521.

H. M. Collins and Trevor Pinch,
Frames of Meaning: The Social Construction of Extraordinary Science
(Routledge, 1982).

Elizabeth Mayer,
Extraordinary Knowing
(Bantam, 2007): 69–70, 93.

Marie-Catherine Mousseau, “Parapsychology: Science or Pseudo-Science?”
Journal of Scientific Exploration
17, no. 2 (2003): 271–82.

Chris Carter,
Parapsychology and the Skeptics
(Paja Books, 2007): 8–15, 73–82.
Author's note
: Carter's book on the battle between skeptics and psi proponents is, for my money, one of the best books ever written about the paranormal. My citation here is for the Rawlins and Wiseman material, but Carter's entire book is worth reading and was an incredible resource for me in the research for this chapter. A further chapter of Carter's book, available online, is cited later.

George P. Hansen, “CSICOP and the Skeptics: An Overview,”
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
86, no. 1 (January 1992): 19–63.

Guy Lyon Playfair, “Has CSICOP Lost the Thirty Years' War?”
Skeptical Investigations
, accessed October 26, 2010, http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/New/Observeskeptics/CSICOP/30yearswar1.html

Paul Kurtz et al., “Objections to Astrology,”
Humanist
(September/October 1975): 4–6.

Dennis Rawlins, “Starbaby,”
Fate
34, no. 10 (October 1981): 67–98. Accessed October 26, 2010, http://cura.free.fr/xv/14starbb.html

Michel and Francoise Gauquelin, “The Truth About the Mars Effect on Sports Champions,”
Humanist
36, no. 4 (July/August 1976): 44–55.

G. O. Abell et al., “A Test of the Gauquelin Mars Effect,”
Humanist
36, no. 5 (September/October 1976): 40.

Michel and Francoise Gauquelin, “The Zelen Test of the Mars Effect,”
Humanist
37, no. 6 (November/December 1977): 30–35.

Richard Kammann, “The True Disbelievers: Mars Effect Drives Skeptics to Irrationality,”
Zetetic Scholar
10 (1982): 50–65.

Patrick Curry, “Research on the Mars Effect,”
Zetetic Scholar
9 (February/March 1982): 34–52.

R. Targ and H. Puthoff, “Information Transmission Under Conditions of Sensory Shielding,”
Nature
251, no. 18 (October 1974): 602–7.

James Randi,
Flim-Flam!
(Prometheus Books, 1982): 133 (lying claim), 143–45 (Geller tests, Pressman controversy).

Guy Lyon Playfair, “The Witch Hunters,”
Geller Effect
, 1988, Accessed October 26, 2010, http://www.urigeller.com/geller-effect/tge14.htm

Jonathan Margolis,
Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic?
(Orion, 1999).

Geller has posted the entire book for free at http://www.uri-geller.com/books/magician-or-mystic/index.htm, but the relevant chapter was accessed October 26, 2010, http://www.uri-geller.com/books/magician-or-mystic/chapter11.htm.

Paul H. Smith,
Reading the Enemy's Mind
(Forge, 2005): 66–67.

Susan Blackmore,
In Search of the Light: Adventures of a Parapsychologist
(Prometheus Books, 1986): 163.

Susan Blackmore, “The Elusive Open Mind: Ten Years of Negative Research in Parapsychology,”
Skeptical Inquirer
, 11, (1987): 244–55.
Author's note:
Some might complain that I subject Blackmore to a particularly critical examination. In that context, I congratulate her on the following article she published in 2010, in which she reveals that she no longer considers religion a “virus of the mind.” In it, she cites some new research that has come to her attention demonstrating that religious people seem happier, perhaps even healthier, and have more children than “secularists.” I'm not sure why she is shocked by this new data when plenty of old data contained similar findings, but I congratulate her on being willing to revise her opinion on such a hot button issue. Susan Blackmore, “Why I No Longer Believe Religion is a Virus of the Mind,”
Guardian
, September 16, 2010, accessed October 30, 2010, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/sep/16/why-no-longer-believe-religion-virus-mind/print.

Rick E. Berger, “A Critical Examination of the Blackmore Psi Experiments,”
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
83 (1989): 123–44.

Chris Carter, “The Research of the Skeptics,”
Skeptical Investigations
. Also
Parapsychology and the Skeptics
, 70–71, accessed October 26, 2010, http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/Anomali/skeptic_research.html

Susan Blackmore, “A CRITICAL RESPONSE to Rick Berger,”
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
83 (1989): 145–54.

Sheila Jones, “One Hot-Button Issue Can Rile a Roomful of Skeptics,”
Globe and Mail
, July 10, 2010, p. F-4.

Susan Blackmore, “Which Skeptical Position?”
Skeptical Inquirer
19, no. 3 (May/June 1995): 26.

Alex Tsakiris, “Rupert Sheldrake and Richard Wiseman Clash Over Parapsychology Experiments,”
Skeptiko
, March 8, 2010, http://www.skeptiko.com/rupert-sheldrake-and-richard-wiseman-clash/. Accessed October 26, 2010.

Also see, Carter, ”Research.”

Kendrick Frazier, “It's CSI Now, Not CSICOP,” December 4, 2006. Accessed October 26, 2010. http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/its_csi_now_not_csicop/

Brian Josephson, “Scientists' Unethical Use of Media for Propaganda Purposes,” Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, Fall 2004, accessed October 26, 2010, http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/propaganda/

Guy Lyon Playfair, “The Girl with X-Ray Eyes,”
Skeptical Investigations
, accessed October 26, 2010, http://skepticalinvestigations.org/Demkinafile/X-Ray.html

Rupert Sheldrake, “James Randi—A Conjurer Attempts to Debunk Research on Psychic Animals,” accessed October 26, 2010, http://www.sheldrake.org/D&C/controversies/randi.html

Brandon K. Thorp, “The Sheldrake Kerfuffle,”
Swift
, blog of the James Randi Educational foundation, accessed October 26, 2010, http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/795-the-sheldrake-kerfluffle.html

James Randi, “Nessie Innocent, Sheldrake Lecture, Hand Acupressure, More Santa Stuff, and a Good Christian's Dilemma,”
Swift
, January 17, 2003, accessed October 26, 2010, http://www.randi.org/jr/011703.html

Author's note
: The following selections, with some notes from me, contain some of the back-and-forth between Schwartz and Randi.

James Randi, “How Long Do We Wait,”
Swift
, April 8, 2005.
Author's note
: Here, Randi lists Krippner, in a March 27, 2001 (author's emphasis) letter to Schwartz's university, as having “already agreed” to analyze Schwartz's data, Accessed October 26, 2010, http://www.randi.org/jr/040805how.html

Gary Schwartz, “A Reply to Randi,”
Daily Grail
, April 15, 2005, accessed October 26, 2010, http://www.dailygrail.com/Guest-Articles/2005/4/Reply-Randi-Dr-Gary-Schwartz Two months after the letter listing Krippner, Randi says Krippner
didn't
agree to participate and this was only his proposed panel.

James Randi, “ . . . More Schwartz!”
Swift
, May 18, 2001. Accessed January 11, 2011. http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/swift-archives.html

Michael Schmicker,
Best Evidence
(Writers Club Press, 2002): 287–88.

Ridolfo H. Baxter et al., “Social Influences on Paranormal Belief,”
Current Research in Social Psychology
15, no. 3 (2010) 33-41.
Author's note:
Also includes polling data.

Frank Newport et al., “Americans' Belief in Psychic and Paranormal Phenomena Is up Over Last Decade,” Gallup News Service, June 8, 2001.

David W. Moore, “Three in Four Americans Believe in Paranormal,” Gallup News Service, June 16, 2005.

Daryl J. Bem, et al., “Does Psi Exist? Replicable Evidence for an Anomalous Process of Information Transfer,”
Psychological Bulletin
115, no. , (1994): 4–18.

Dean Radin,
The Conscious Universe
(HarperOne, 1997): 55–56.

Doreen Molloy, Personal reading, January 2010.

Windbridge Certified Research Mediums, accessed October 26, 2010, http://www.windbridge.org/mediums.htm

Julie Beischel et al., “Anomalous Information Reception by Research Mediums Demonstrated Using a Novel Triple-Blind Protocol,”
EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing
3, no. 1 (2007): 23–27.