| Magazine: | Journal of Scientific Exploration |
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 1994 | |
| Issue: | Volume 8 Number 3 | |
| Contents | |
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| Author | Title | Pag | |
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| Bernhard HAISCH | Editorial | 307-308 | |
| Peter A. STURROCK | Report on a Survey of the Membership of the American Astronomical Society Concerning the UFO Problem: Part 3 | 309-346 | |
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| Abstract: Refereed journals, to which scientists turn for their reliable information, carry virtually no information on the UFO problem. Does this imply that scientists have no views and no thoughts on the subject, or that all scientists consider it insignificant? Does it imply that scientists have no reports to submit comparable with UFO reports published in newspapers and popular books? The purpose of this survey was to answer these questions. | |||
| Bruce MACCABEE | Strong Magnetic Field Detected Following a Sighting of an Unidentified Flying Object | 347-365 | |
| Related: Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 9 Number 2 /1995 - Comments on Magnetic Field Detection Associated with a UFO | |||
| Abstract: Following the brief sighting of an unidentified flying object in Gulf Breeze, Florida in September 1992, investigators made an area search using a fluxgate gradient magnetometer and found a strong magnetic field gradient, indicative of a strong source of magnetic field, which appeared to be at or above the tops of some trees near a small pond. Three circles of depressed grass were found in the bottom of the shallow pond. This paper discusses the sighting, the area search, the circles and the field gradient measurements. An estimate of the field strength is presented and compared with magnetic effects associated with other sightings. | |||
| Daniel P. WIRTH, Barbara J. MITCHELL | Complementary Healing Therapy for Patients With Type I Diabetes Mellitus | 367-377 | |
| Related: Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 8 Number 4 /1994 - Further Comments on the Unreliability of Home Blood Glucose Monitors | |||
| Abstract: The effect of Noncontact Therapeutic Touch (NCTT) therapy and Intercessory Prayer (IP) on patient determined insulin dosage was examined in an exploratory pilot study which utilized a randomized, double-blind, within subject, crossover design. Sixteen type I diabetes mellitus patients were examined and treated daily by NCTT and IP healers for a duration of two weeks. Each patient underwent two separate sessions-one in the treatment condition and one in the control condition-with the patients crossing over to the opposite condition for the second session. The results indicated that while 11 of the 16 patients (69%) in the treatment group showed a reduction in insulin dose levels as compared to the control group, the difference in insulin dosage did not reach significance. It is suggested that various methodological considerations may have been important contributing factors in the nonsignificant results obtained including: (1) the utilization of insulin dose instead of objectively measured laboratory blood glucose values as the dependent variable, (2) the four foot distance and mirrored glass barrier between healer and patient, (3) the short duration for treatment and control sessions, (4) the experimental instructions advising patients to adjust their caloric intake and expenditure prior to adjusting their insulin dose, and (5) the use of healthy longterm IDDM patients with a stable insulin dose who did not exhibit any diabetic sequelae. | |||
| Ian STEVENSON | Response to Wirth et al. | 379-380 | |
| Erlendur HARALDSSON, Joop M. HOUTKOOPER | Report on an Indian Swami Claiming to Materialize Objects: The Value and Limitations of Field Observations | 381-397 | |
| Abstract: In India there are frequent and widely accepted claims of materializations of objects or substances which are usually associated with the activities of religious persons, such as Hindu swamis, and are sometimes reported to occur during religious ceremonies. Such claims, if substantiated, could have a major influence on the development of the studies of anomalous phenomena. This report describes an attempt to investigate the claims concerning a little known swami, Gyatri Swami. The difficulties involved in working in a religious setting are described in order to demonstrate the limitations to which this sort of research is subject. Conclusions are left as much as possible to the reader, because these claims frequently warrant no clearcut verdict. However, in the case of Gyatri Swami we reached a negative conclusion regarding his claims. | |||
| Columns | |||
| Topher COOPER | Anomalous Propagation | 399-402 | |
| Michael EPSTEIN | The Skeptical Perspective | 403-406 | |
| Letters to the Editor | |||
| Response to Ballester-Olmos | 407 | ||
| Related: Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 8 Number 1 Spring/1994 - Alleged Experiences Inside UFOs: An Analysis of Abduction Reports [Ballester Olmos, Vicente-Juan] | |||
| Response to Ballester-Olmos | 407 | ||
| Related: Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 8 Number 1 Spring/1994 - Alleged Experiences Inside UFOs: An Analysis of Abduction Reports [Ballester Olmos, Vicente-Juan] | |||
| Book Reviews | |||
| James W. DEARDORFF | Anomalous Experiences & Trauma: Current Theoretical, Research and Clinical Perspectives edited by Rima E. Laibow et al. | 409-411 | |
| Review: Rima E. LAIBOW, Robert N. SOLLOD, John P. WILSON,ANOMALOUS EXPERIENCES AND TRAUMA: Current Theoretical, Reserch and Clinical Perspectives - 1992 | |||
| Hilary EVANS | The Case for Astrology by John Anthony West | 411-415 | |
| John PALMER | Parapsychology: A Concise History by John Beloff | 415-419 | |
| Henry H. BAUER | Science Frontiers: Some Anomalies and Curiosities of Nature by William R. Corliss | 419-420 | |
| Review: William R. CORLISS,SCIENCE FRONTIERS: Some Anomalies and Curioities of Nature - 1994 | |||
| Ian STEVENSON | Immortality edited by Paul Edwards | 420-422 | |
| Angela THOMPSON | The Blue Sense: Psychic Detectives and Crime by Arthur Lyons and Marcello Truzzi - | 422-423 | |
| Angela THOMPSON | Many Lives, Many Masters & Through Time Into Healing by Brian L. Weiss | 423-424 | |