placebo effect
in faith healing
in medical therapies
in psychotherapy
police psychics
Dorothy Allison
Gerard Croiset
media attention
scientific studies of
poltergeists
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
polygraphy
polywater
Pons, Stanley
Popoff, Peter
population stereotypes
possession, demonic
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
power lines, cancer clusters and
prayer, intercessory
precession
precognition. See dreams, prophetic; predictions
predictions
astrological
failures
Jeane Dixon’s
Nostradamus’s
in remote viewing experiments
scientific studies of
of Titanic sinking
of World Trade Center destruction
Price, Harry
primal therapy
probability, poor understanding of
profiling, criminal
Project Alpha
Project Blue Book
Project Mogul
projective tests, psychoanalytic
prophecies. See dreams, prophetic; predictions
pseudoscience
burden of proof
dangers of believing
defined
determining
myths and
Nazism and
paranormal as subset
psychological issues
as revealed truth
science mixed with
scientific responsibility toward
studying
truth within
Web sites debunking
psi phenomena
defined
proposed mechanisms
psychic dentistry
psychic surgery
psychics
billet reading
cold readings
crime detection. See police psychics
Jeane Dixon
lost object finding
Nostradamus. See Nostradamus
Tamara Rand
Ted Serios
psychoanalysis
clinical “proof,”
effectiveness
founded by Freud
irrefutable hypothesis of
lasting influence
neurobiology and
projective tests
repression and
symbolic interpretation in. See symbolic interpretation
unconscious and
psychokinesis, spiritualism and
psychology
cognitive
humanistic
psychosis, manic-depressive
psychotherapists
effectiveness
inadequate training
Ptolemy, modem astrology and
Puthoff, Harold
deceived by Geller
remote viewing experiments
pyramid power
