Gonzo Science: Anomalies, Heresies, and ConspiraciesTrue believers and skeptics beware: what you know about science may be wrong. Science commentators Jim and Allen Richardson are more faithful than the believers and more skeptical than the skeptics -- and they're funnier, too. |
Contents
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The Exploded Planet Hypothesis | 43 |
Interview with Astronomer Tom Van Flandern Part 2 | 60 |
Controversy or Conspiracy? | 87 |
The Ball Lightning and UFO Mysteries Solved | 100 |
Interview with Science Writer Deborah Blum | 113 |
Interview with Systems Theorist Fritjof Capra | 127 |
Interview with Velikovskian Researcher Charles Ginenthal Part 2 | 174 |
Worlds Dumbest Nuclear Accidents | 189 |
Fire Your Physicist and Hire a Chemist | 203 |
The International Conference on Altered States of Consciousness | 224 |
Interview with Remote Viewing Expert Paul Smith | 237 |
The ScienceSwastika Connection | 250 |
Interview with JFK Assassination Researcher Jim Fetzer | 272 |
Was a Teenage UFO Contactee by Jim Richardson | 303 |
The Strange and Terrible Story of the Kensington Runestone | 140 |
The BergAVM Runestone Fiasco | 157 |
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Page 14 - ... claimant employing the accepted rules of reason and tools of research, or have these been abandoned in favor of others that lead to the desired conclusion? 8. Has the claimant provided a different explanation for the observed phenomena, or is it strictly a process of denying the existing explanation? 9. If the claimant has proffered a new explanation, does it account for as many phenomena as the old explanation? 10. Do the claimant's personal beliefs and biases drive the conclusions, or vice...
Page 14 - ... 7. Is the claimant employing the accepted rules of reason and tools of research, or have these been abandoned in favor of others that lead to the desired conclusion?