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...section in the hope that their works will be reviewed. As Christmas approaches, the incoming stream becomes a torrent in anticipation of our annual section on gift books, which appears in this issue. The new volumes-on subjects ranging from Peruvian highways to Sumerian icons, from precious plants to psychic phenomena-are delivered to the office of Books Editor Stefan Kanfer. "It's like getting a lot of Christmas cards," he says. "You are suddenly reminded not only of people, but also of subjects that you haven't been in touch with for a long time...
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...
...Club syndrome"-developers versus conservationists, with many conflicting interests between them. McPhee is no reflexive ecologist; he compares the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to "a thread laid across Staten Island." Neither is he sanguine about the many ways man can find to make a vast space less wondrous. Discussing the psychic need for a frontier, he writes: "People are mentioning outer space as, in this respect, all we have left. All we have left is Alaska...