Word: psychically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is as great a danger in extreme skepticism as there is in irrational belief. Since this field of paranormal or psychic phenomena is gaining rapidly in world attention, it is crucial for scientists, the Government, the media to be responsible in their approach to finding the middle way to truth...
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...
...group made news last month by filing a formal complaint with the Federal Communications Commission and two congressional subcommittees against the National Broadcasting Co. for misleading the public about psychic phenomena in an October program. Exploring the Unknown. According to the complaint, the show presented "a totally biased point of view in a sensationalistic manner arousing gullibility in countless viewers...
...committee may have a point. Though presented as entertainment and containing periodic disclaimers, the show affected a documentary tone and ignored some crucial facts. One part reported on "psychic surgery," in which Filipino healers supposedly diagnose tumors and other problems, then use psychic forces-not scalpels-to make incisions and treat them. It did not mention that these sorts of '"miracles" have been rationally explained. Dr. William Nolen, a Minnesota surgeon, underwent a similar operation himself while researching his 1975 book Healing and reported that the "psychic" incisions were actually made with bits of mica concealed under a fingernail...
...stressed that no one has figured out how else the figures could have been created, though German Mathematician Maria Reiche has demonstrated that the Nazcans would have needed no outside help. Still another program showed pictures made by a process called Kirlian photography and explained that they showed the psychic "auras" of people and plants. Scientists have reported that the auras are a common electrical phenomenon called coronal discharge...