Pseudoscience and the Paranormal

scientific mistakes

characteristics of

cold fusion

N rays

polywater

seance. See also spiritualism

seizures

self-actualization

Serios, Ted

700 Club (TV show)

Seventh-day Adventists

sexual abuse

McMartin Preschool case

Paul Ingram case

recovered memories of

reported through facilitated communication

sexual development

Freud’s theories of

Oedipus complex

toilet training and

See also homosexuality

Shackleton, Basil

shamans. See faith healers

Shaw, Steve

shrines, miracle cures at

Shroud of Turin

Siberia, Tunguska event in

sick building syndrome (SBS)

Sirius star system, visitors from

Sister Grace

60 Minutes (TV show)

size constancy

sleight of hand

in faith healing

psychic surgery as

thought pictures

Smith, Helene

Soal, S. C.

Soal studies

Society for Psychical Research (SPR)

sodium pentothol

solar system, Velikovsky’s theories of

Spaulding, William

speaking in tongues

spiritualism

burden of proof

dissociative states and

failure of

modern campgrounds for

origins

religious attacks on

See also life after death; mediums; psychics

spontaneous regression

defined

therapeutic efficacy and

spoons, bent by Geller

Sprinkle, Leo

St. John’s wort, and depression

stalled cars, as UFO effect

stamp hoax, Mars face stamp

Stanford Research Institute (SRI)

star map, Betty Hill’s

statistical analysis

of astrology

of biorhythm studies

in research studies

for therapeutic efficacy

Stevenson, Ian

stock spiels, in cold readings

Stokes, Doris

streak shooting phenomenon

Strieber, Whitley

suicides, biorhythms and

sun signs

compatibility and

personality and

superego

surgery, psychic

symbolic interpretation

Freud’s penchant for

of history

Jung’s interest in

of literature

nonfalsifiability of

role of

Velikovsy’s

symptom substitution hypothesis

synchronicity

and coincidence

Jung’s interest in

T

table moving. See also spiritualism

Talbot, Nathan

tape recorders, dead heard on

Targ, Russell