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| Thomas GOLD | New Ideas in Science | 103-112 |
| | Abstract: The pace of scientific work continues to accelerate, but the
question is whether the pace of discovery will continue to accelerate. If we
were driving in the wrong direction-in the direction where no new ideas
can be accepted-then even if scientific work goes on, the progress would
be stifled. This is not to suggest that we are in quite such a disastrous
position, but on the other hand, not all is well. |
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| Richard F. HAINES, Jacques F. VALLÉE | Photo Analysis of an Aerial Disc Over Costa Rica | 113-131 |
| | Abstract: n unusual image was photographically recorded by an official
mapping aircraft of the Costa Rican government at 08:25 am (EDT) on
September 4, 197 1 while flying at 10,000 feet altitude over a body of water
known as Lago de Cote. None of the flight crew or photographers saw the
object. Second generation negative and positive black and white transparencies were obtained and analyzed by the authors. Both transparencies
were photographically enlarged and printed on various contrast papers for
purposes of making visual inspections and linear measurements. Computer
enhancement showed variations in surface brightness. The preceding
frame, taken 20 seconds earlier of the same ground region, did not show the
disc. The angular position of the sun was determined for the date, time and
location of the event and was found to be consistent with cloud shadow
positions but not with the dark regions on the disc. A shadow of the disc
could not be found. The oval image measured 4.2 mm on the negative and
was enlarged to 41 mm (9.76 X magnification). If the disc was located
10,000 feet away from the camera, its maximum dimension would be 2 10
meters (683 feet). The various analyses failed to identify the image. The
same body of water was the site of a visual observation of a partially
submerged object on October 25, 1986. |
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| Antonia MILLS | A Replication Study: Three Cases of Children in Northern India Who Are Said to Remember a Previous Life | 133-184 |
| | Abstract: This replication of Ian Stevenson's studies of spontaneous cases
suggestive of reincarnation presents data from 3 of the 10 cases investigated
by the author in northern India during 5 weeks in the summers of 1987 and
1988. The purpose of the study was to see if an independent investigator,
following Stevenson's methods, would reach conclusions similar to his.
Stevenson reports that the numerous cases in which a child speaks and acts
from the point of view of a verifiable but deceased person about whom the
child could not have normally known are best explained as cases suggestive
of reincarnation. With one possible exception the author was satisfied that
the cases she studied were not cases of deceit or self-deceit, although she
noted that acceptance of the concept of reincarnation played a part in the
diagnosis and unfolding of the case. While in some instances the child said
no more than could be presumed to be known by the parents, in other cases
the child's accurate and intense identification with someone unknown to
the parents indicates something paranormal has taken place. |
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| Dean I. RADIN | Searching for "Signatures" in Anomalous Human-Machine Interaction Data: A Neural Network Approach | 185-200 |
| | Abstract: An artificial neural network was used to explore whether unique
"signatures" could be found in data collected in experiments studying the
effect of intention on the statistical behavior of random number generators.
Results showed that a network trained with a back-propagation technique
was able to learn to associate 32 different individuals with the data they
generated, then successfully transfer that knowledge to new data. It is recommended that similar experiments studying anomalous human-machine
interactions should attempt to identify person-specific patterns in data in
addition to measuring the magnitude of effects; parallel processing analysis
techniques are also recommended. |
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| Ian STEVENSON | A Case of Severe Birth Defects Possibly Due to Cursing | 201-212 |
| | Related:
Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 4 Number 1 /1990 - Comments on Stevenson's "A Case of Severe Birth Defects Possibly Due to Cursing"
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| | Abstract: For centuries it was widely believed that a strong unpleasant
shock to a pregnant woman could cause birth defects in her baby. Medical
books and journals published numerous cases of this type up to the early
decades of the present century. The idea of "maternal impression" gradually lost ground during the 18th and 19th centuries, mainly because it
seemed to conflict with the facts of physiology. In cases of "maternal impression," the pregnant mother was usually reported to have viewed someone with a shocking deformity that her baby was said to reproduce. It has
also been thought that cursing, verbally inflicted and without a visual stimulus, could produce birth defects. Three cases of this type, one published by
a pediatrician in 1960, are briefly reviewed, and then a new case is reported.
In both of the modem cases, the commonly recognized etiological factors
in birth defects could not be identified. |
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| | Letter to the Editor |
| | Comments on Slanger's Internal Clock | 213-219 |
| | Related:
Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 2 Number 2 September/1988 - Evidence for a Short-Period Internal Clock in Humans [Slanger, Tom G.]
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| | Book Review |
| Henry H. BAUER | The Relativity Question, by Ian McCausland | 217-219 |
