Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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America has been saturated in recent years by tales of the paranormal and claims of the pseudo scientists. The list seems endless: Uri Geller, the Bermuda Triangle, E.S.P., levitation, Jeane Dixon, Kirlian photography, the Loch Ness monster, psychic surgery, Immanuel Velikovsky, thinking ivy plants and now-again -flying saucers...
...Scientists Confront Velikovsky will not stop such debate; it will instead encourage it. Only education of the people will reduce their gullibility towards pseudo-science. An educated public would not buy Velikovsky any more than they would protein hair conditioners, timed release aspirin, Geritol, or other such fakes. Until then their ignorance will most likely bring scientists into many more close encounters of the Velikovsky kind...
...view of the challenge he set himself, Lumet deserves pardon for a few tactical mistakes. He has come up with a film sufficiently slick and commercial to avoid the stigma of a pseudo-Bergman exploration of the soul, yet without cheapening the gravity of the questions that arise from the struggle between Dysart and his young patient. Much of the credit for this achievement must of course go to Shaffer's extraordinary script. But such a nod to the playwright in no way lessens the triumph of the man behind the camera...
Schism was accomplished at the church's General Convention last year, when approval was given to the pseudo ordination of women and the revision of the Book of Common Prayer. Call us dissidents if you like, but we are only attempting to preserve the Catholic faith forfeited by the church...
...Celtics now return east for some pseudo-home court advantage, as they take on the Atlanta Hawks in Hartford on Wednesday night...