A Better Protocol...At Last?
This is the second of two commentaries on papers published by T.J. Robertson (TJR) and Archie E. Roy (AER) in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research.

Book Review: The Conscious Universe, Dean Radin
The subject of the book is psi research, that is research concerning telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition. Radin claims that these phenomena are real and in the book he presents the evidence, which he thinks proves this.

The Cannonball Approach To Space Travel
Space travel is impossible. According to Mark Peeters, that is. Mark Peeters claims that it is not possible to make an object move so fast that it escapes Earth's gravitation.

Dowsing In Sweden, 1914
This article was written by Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, 1859-1927, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1903, and published in the newspaper "Stockholms Dagblad" 1914.

The Etiology Of A Social Epidemic
Ignorance is forgivable. But sometimes, in certain personalities and at certain times, ignorance is accompanied by a terrible arrogance, even charisma, that condones and justifies cruelty as a method for achieving the desired results--which in all such cases is control.

An Evening With Dean Radin
I spent one of the last evenings of September 2002 attending a lecture by Dean Radin, author of "The Conscious Universe", on the Upper East Side, Manhattan, where he told about the Global Consciousness Project.

How Intelligent is the Average IQ test designer?
This article is an adaptation from a Danish article published in the on-line magazine Para-nyt (Para News), the website of the Danish skeptics. It was mainly inspired by the controversy surrounding the Danish IQ psychologist Helmuth Nyborg, an admirer of Jensen, Herrnstein and Murray. Every two or three years Nyborg appears in the Danish media with his sensational ideas, only to disappear again and be forgotten. There may be good reasons for that.

IQ: The Democratically Purified Racism
After the ideas in the book The Bell Curve were thoroughly debunked a couple of years ago, almost everybody seems to agree that even if black people considered as a group may be less intelligent than the rest of humanity, the genes are not to blame! The most recent publications used as textbooks declare that the average score of these children is by no means inferior – as you would expect if ‘black genes’ were dumber than other people’s genes.

Mind Games: A Look At Phrenology In The 1830s
Phrenology was a hot topic in 1830s America, the relatively new "offspring of inquiring and revolutionary age," as the Quarterly Christian Spectator called it in 1834. It was hailed by some as a science that could unlock the secrets of the human brain by measuring the skull. It was denounced by others as sheer hucksterism - the work of con-men using the dubious notion of "cranial bumps" to make money off the gullibility of others.

Psi Tech: Not So Smart
This is a grisly tale. It will not please many people. It is a story about an abducted girl, a family in grief and fear and a bunch of vultures, who prey on parents with a missing child, while marketing their own, bogus claims of being able to find dead bodies.

A Quantum Of Common Sense
It seems these days there is no shortage of "quantum" machines, or "quantum" explanations that will cure all known ills, generate unlimited "free" energy, communicate with the dead, explain personal "reverse causality" or perform any other highly improbable thing you can think of. One might be tempted to be skeptical, except that it's just "science" isn't it? Doesn't quantum mechanics prove all these things to be true? Decide for yourself...

Roger & Me...
Roger Coghill of Coghill Research Laboratories, UK claims to be a scientist doing research work in the field bioelectromagnetism, which is defined as the study of interactions between biological entities and electromagnetic forces. He claims to conduct scientific research in the area, and has some very strong opinions about the area where he claims so have disclosed special mechanisms whereby adverse effects may incur. Mr. Coghill also markets various commercial products, which he claims will protect users in various ways against such adverse effects.

Shapes In The Clouds
A commentary on "Information and Uncertainty in Remote Perception Research", Dunne and Jahn, Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR).

Testing A Non-Existent Claim
A commentary on a paper published by T.J. Robertson (TJR) and Archie E. Roy (AER) in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research.