1 April 2007 | Pseudoscience
by Dann Simonsen 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...
1 March 2007 | Pseudoscience
by Dann Simonsen “… and to implement abstractions in reality is synonymous with the destruction of reality.” (G.W.F. Hegel)1 After the ideas in the book The Bell Curve were thoroughly debunked a couple of years ago, almost everybody seems to agree...
1 May 2005 | Mysticism, New Age, Prophesies, Pseudoscience, Psychic abilities
by Claus Larsen Whenever I can, I like to visit the psychic fairs that pop up from time to time. It is always a journey into enlightenment, although not the kind I am promised. It is more an uplifting tale of just how vivid human fantasy and invention can be. The...
1 January 2003 | Parapsychology, Pseudoscience
by Claus Larsen 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. Radin told about the Global Consciousness Project, which is described as: “a...
1 January 1914 | Pseudoscience, Psychic abilities
by Professor Svante Arrhenius Svante Arrhenius This article was the second and final one that Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, 1859-1927, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1903, published in the newspaper “Stockholms Dagblad” 1914. The...
