Quantum quackery
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Katu TV's 'AM Northwest' in Portland, Oregon film avatars are New Age scientists whose jargonladen sound bites amount to little more than what California Institute of Technology physicist and Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann once described as 'quantum flapdoodle'. The quantum coherence causes neurotransmitters to be released into the synapses between neurons, thus triggering them to fire in a uniform pattern that creates thought and consciousness.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2005
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Abducted!: Imaginary traumas are as terrifying as the real thing
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Abductees exhibited greater psychophysiological reactivity to abduction and stressful scripts than to positive and neutral scripts according to 2004 paper in Psychological Science. The abduction study, which was initiated as a control in a larger investigation of memories of sexual abuse, is discussed that gives explanations of occurrence of alien abduction.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2005
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The enchanted glass
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Francis Bacon identified four idols namely, idols of the cave, market place, theater and tribe in the form of cognitive biases. The self-serving bias dictates that we tend to see ourselves in a more positive light than others see us.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2004
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