Richard Milton: Forbidden Science: Exposing the Secrets of Suppressed Research [1994]

Review by Rae West. Most of this was written about 20 years ago; it's not at all fully updated, but might prove useful. I don't think Milton anticipated ideas from after the Internet arrived, such as nuclear errors—he explicitly believed in atom bombs—and had little idea of biochemistry mistakes. This book postdates Richard Milton's anti-Darwin book, suggesting he was spotted as a likely author for this topic, and that publishers were looking for promising authors—provided they did not discuss Jews or secret societies. But of course Darwin was in the past, and easier to write about; suppressed research may well be in the future, and much more difficult to interpret.

An interesting example of a book on a new and subject. he hasn't really begun to find his feet.

By an author who as is customary doesn't reveal his methodology; where do his examples (mostly Anglo-American) come from?
E.g. the Wright Brothers weren't believed in & his information's from a mid-century biography; but what put him on that track? Story of Turbinia and Spithead Review given here. Also Blondlot of the University at Nancy in France, and 'N-rays'. Nothing much on biology; Hillman's not in the index and AIDS gets just one mention, though there's a hint of problems of super-bugs and iatrogenic medicine.
Milton lists inventors (about 25) not from institutionalised science (pp 91-92; p.85 has a few others including Dalton).
He likes cold fusion - which he regards as established, quoting approving remarks from many research institutes - and Uri Geller, despite not thinking much of CSICOP.
Tries to look at science establishment (he seems to think there's just one; there are no examples from e.g. USSR, which there should be, or Japan, or any under-developed country) and looks at the peer review system and resistances to new ideas—with amusing account of Edison and electric light, and scientists allegedly refusing to even come and look at it! I have some sympathy here; consider people refusing to look at Galileo's telescope; no doubt it was crude and difficult to use.
He dislikes the secretiveness (why shouldn't Harwell answer the queries of ordinary people?) and what he takes to be the hugging together of important people against the plebs; his exemplar is what he calls a science fiction novel by C S Lewis, Hideous Strength.
Weak on statistics (e.g. sample space of everyday things)—how many opportunities are there for telepathy? Presumably every pair of people on earth at every instant could communicate if it were possible; moreover in situations like e.g. being lost or writing an exam question or trying to swim, in which telepathy would be life saving, how much evidence is there? However, he does consider 'meta-analysis' though seems unable to believe in fraud or 'para-fraud'.
And weak on philosophy; e.g. he looks at air raid precautions before the Second World War and contrasts RSGs and no public shelters after, and thinks the difference is to do with philosophy and rationalism and 'the greatest happiness of the greatest number'!
He says little on practicalities, such as expense of equipment. The sheer cost of electron microscopes at first must have had a dampening effect on their free use and free criticism.
And naive on the media: 9: '.. Plurality of viewpoint is now so highly valued it has even been enshrined in the legislation governing British television broadcasting, the act of 1990 obliging broadcasters.. It is an article of faith in every department of public life that diversity of opinion, tolerance and a robust openness are the vital signs .. Yet one great taboo area remains.. big science.' When I spoke to R Milton & taped him in early 1997, I recall he didn't know Chomsky was a radical; he thought of him just as a linguist. See below on Ethyl-Dow and questions of poisons.

CONTENTS
PART ONE: SCIENCE
1 TOO WONDERFUL TO BE TRUE
2 A COMPLETELY IDIOTIC IDEA
3 SUNBEAMS FROM CUCUMBERS
4 THE GATES OF UNREASON
5 ANIMAL MAGNETISM
6 A CASE OF ILL TREATMENT
7 FORBIDDEN FIELDS
PART TWO: TABOO
8 CALLING A SPADE A SPADE black & red playing cards/ Festinger/ ...
9 THE RESEARCH GAME See below for list by Conway, who says the system produces little. Comment by Horrobin on two types of 'expert' leads to 127-8 example of Peper with (supposed?) asthma cure being treated as a threat, Horrobin on innovative lines being avoided/ C S Lewis 'That Hideous Strength' apparently is on dehumanised scientists/ development of A bomb/ DNA and Crick, Watson
10 GUARDIANS OF THE GATE Wilhelm Reich's book burning (no detail)/ 'Paradigm Police' & Velikovsky. 140 has five predictions of IV [though total sample space not given!] which proved correct/ Harlow Shapley, Prof Bailey & other 'baddies'/ Nature and Geller experiments in 1974 with Chris Evans selected as reviewer and simultaneous New Scientist publication under editor Bernard Dixon/ Anthony Clare on psychology cults and people who felt duped; RM says in each case Clare recommends a 'real psychiatrist'/ Dr John Taylor & Geller: [Taylor's absurd book Superminds first published by Macmillan London 1975; revised edn 1976 by Picador, of Pan Books. Taylor is 'well known as a writer and radio and television personality, and for his stimulating books which includeThe Shape of Minds to Come, The New Physics, and Black Holes: ... H 'taught and researched' on both sides of the Atlantic. All this fits the profile of Jewish group collaborators; Geller being an obvious collaborator.]/ Rhine and ESP/ CSICOP/ COPUS)
11 A TROUT IN THE MILK Hollow earth & House of Lords flying saucer thing, N-rays/ then Dr Irving Langmuir's 1953 colloquium, recording found 1966, published 1989. This reads like Wallace's 'Farce..' But includes case of Prof Fred Allison's 'magneto-optic' apparatus, which sounds like a forerunner of modern types of spectroscope, but whom Langmuir seems to have disliked. Latimer supposedly discovered tritium in 19433, though [Note: priority:] 'most textbooks credit.. Rutherford and his colleagues in the following year.'/ Millikan/ Velikovsky - see 'symptoms' below
12 TOO INSENSITIVE TO CONFIRM 'Feebleness' of Wright Bros plane compared with feeble phenomena of last chapter/ shift to amateurs, claims RM/ relativity dis-confirmed?
13 THE FUTURE THAT FAILED First WW and science/ Midgley/ shift after 1959 to RSGs/ modelling of weather, economies; RM concludes chaotic/ 194 Midgley of Ethyl-Dow (RM has heard only of lead tetraethyl, DDT, freon)/ Crick on synthesis quoted (as in F of L)/ Oxleas last wildwood in England (and Twyford Down)
14 A METHODICAL MADNESS Hamlet/ Penfield's brain experiment/ acceptance of belief, in conversion sense/ Mars' moons found 1877 - RM seems to think names indicate the discoverer's reaction though acc. to Gardner they were Mars' horses/ synchronicity/ astrology/ 217 Hume
POSTSCRIPT
15 FRAUDS, FAKES AND FACING FACTS Kammerer & Haeckel/ 234-235 has list of thirteen questions for scientists to answer; listed below
NOTES/ BIBLIOGRAPHY/ SUBJECT & PEOPLE INDEXES

53 'meta-analysis' coined by Gene Glass of Colorado University in mid-1970s, RM states. Idea here to 'make different experiments that address the same question statistically equivalent' and hence pool them. Milton's example is with 'micro-PK' which he foolishly seems to regard as established.

62 List of names he wants to reconsider for 'specifically biological forms of energy': Gurwitsch & Shchurin, Mesmer, Karl Reichenbach, Walter Kilner, Reich, Semyon Kirlian.

I made a note of the lists which have been made; observations made by people trying to grapple with problems in this vast area.
119ff: LIST of 14 factors or 'key areas', in military incompetence, symptoms listed by Dixon.
121 LIST of 9 'predispositions' of individuals
126-7 LIST by Dr Ashley Conway of 9 rules of the 'research game'
168, 172, 175: LISTS TO DETECT 'PATHOLOGICAL SCIENCE'.
Lafleur (emphasis on current theories and what they predict) 1951
Langmuir (low intensity/ great accuracy claims/ ad hoc excuses..) 1953
Sturrock (evidence, primary sources, list assumptions) 1988
[Brian Martin lists evasive techniques, in Skrabanek]

234-5: thirteen questions:
1 Radin and Nelson have demonstrated psychokinetic effects.. with odds of 10^325.. What is the mechanism of this effect?
2 Excess energy has been reproduced.. from Fleischmann-Pons cells in 92 research organisations.. What is the explanation of 'cold fusion'?
3 What is the explanation of the non-random mutation of E. coli produced.. by Cairns and replicated by Hall?
4 What are the implications .. of the discovery by Piccardi that chemical reactions in water are influenced by electromagnetic radiation?
5 What are the implications of the.. findings of Gurwitsch replicated by Shchurin that some organisms.. appear to be able to communicate.. at ultraviolet or shorter wavelengths?
6 Replicated trials have established that acupressure and acupuncture can produce repeatable physiological effects; how? ...
7 Several laboratories have shown that if part of a leaf is removed, the entire original shape is still visible by Kirlian photography.. ..
8 Emotional states.. have been reliably shown.. to affect immune system functions; how? And how far?
9 Eysenck has shown that personality variables are more predictive of death through heart disease and cancer than smoking. If emotional stress kills; how?
10 How exactly does the placebo effect work? If the answer is 'suggestion' then how exactly does suggestion work? ..
11 [Wilder] Penfield has demonstrated .. that brain functions such as pattern recognition and speech are called upon alternately by some higher function.. the 'mind'. Where does this.. reside? What is its connection with the brain? What are its capabilities?
12 .. Michel Gauquelin .. established a correlation between certain professions and the positions of certain planets at birth.. replicated several times. What is the explanation..?
13 What is the exact nature of any so-called field phenomenon - that is, any action-at-a-distance? Exactly how do like magnetic poles repel, for instance?

These indexes aren't very good—e.g. excluding 'greenhouse effect', 'cancer research' on which RM has interesting references.

FULL INDEX OF TOPICS
AAAS, 60, 88
academic(s), 44, 51, 81, 88, 135, 137-8, 152, 183-90, 198
Académie Française, 3
Académie des Sciences, 63, 83, 159, 195
acceleration, 180
acetic acid, 165
acids, 132, 165, 186
actinium, 113
acupressure, 78, 99, 234
acupuncture, 78, 85, 99, 184, 234
Adelaide, 19
admiralty, 14-17, 20, 119
adreno-leukodystrophy (ALD), 183
aerofoil, 178, 181
aeronautics, 74
aerosols, 134, 139
agriculture, 33, 130, 130
AIDS, 7
aircraft, 177, 182-3
Alabama, 165-6
alabamine, 166, 169
Alamagordo, 131
alcohol, 98, 165
alpha-particles, 153, 161-2, 164
Alzheimer's disease, 80
America, 3, 11-13, 17-13, 22, 27-8, 60-1, 68-9, 72, 77, 81, 87-90, 103, 121, 127, 131, 135, 137, 133-40, 142-3, 160, 164-5, 167, 169, 171, 177, 183, 193-4, 198, 227
anaesthetics, 78, 124
animals, 3, 59, 63-5, 97, 126, 202, 224-5
anthropology, 137
antibiotics, 80, 35
anti-Darwinism, 90, 225-6, 231
anti-emetic, 79
antiSemitism, 121-2
archaeologists, 3, 137, 213
armour, 17, 13-20, 113, 122
army, 11, 20, 23, 64, 177-8, 191
asthma, 127
astrology, 153, 216
astronauts, 74
astronomers, 22, 41, 48, 110, 139, 141-2, 174, 185, 187, 213, 215
astronomy, 5, 11, 48, 63, 92-3, 110, 175-7, 174, 189, 210, 213
atmosphere, 40, 45, 67, 31, 140, 195
Australia, 13, 74, 141
Austrian, 48, 224
authoritarianism, 108-9, 121-2, 193, 135, 138, 206
autosuggestion, 60, 164

Babylon, 210-11
Baltimore, 28, 171
barium, 113
battleships, 14-15
Bavaria, 63
behaviour, 10, 33-4, 39, 84, 102, 106, 124, 135, 141, 153
belief, 7, 42, 52, 62-3, 80, 83-4, 86, 89, 98, 106-8, 120-2, 130, 133, 135, 133, 146, 148-3, 152, 154-6, 159, 175, 180, 188-9, 138, 202, 207, 209-12, 214, 217-18, 231-3
bereavement: 74-5, 80, 234
Berkeley University, 109, 121, 166
Berlin, 60, 63, 230
beta-blockers, 81
Bhopal, 206
bioenergetics, 68, 149
bioenergy, 62, 65, 67, 68-71
biologists, 53, 69, 71, 213, 224-6, 229, 231
biology, 84, 83-90, 135, 137, 154-5, 184, 209, 224, 229
bions, 68-3
bioplasmic energy, 70
Birkbeck College, 37, 42, 112
Birmingham, 206
bismuth, 40
Boston, 29
botany, 90
Bracknell, 201
brain, 73, 2083, 235
brain-mechanisms, 203
broadcasters, 88-3
Brussels, 40
Buddhism, 62, 146
butterfly, 209
Bingham Young University, 27

California, 6, 27-8, 32, 42, 90, 109, 121, 137-8, 141, 149, 152, 166, 163, 271, 174
Calne, 99
calorimetry, 31
Cambridge, 14, 51, 32-3, 98, 228
camera, 50, 72
Canada, 15, 95
cancer, 6, 89, 75-81, 84-5, 95-8, 101, 107, 125, 145, 155, 195, 235
carbon, 17-18, 140
carbonised thread, 18
Carolina, 11, 53, 156, 177-8
cathode rays, 22, 110-11
cell-division, 61
cells, 27, 30, 31, 50, 59-61, 67, 73-4, 76, 112, 164, 202, 204, 226, 234
censorship, 89-90, 133, 145, 212, 223
cereologists, 184
cerium, 113
CFCs, 134
chaos, 136, 202, 215
charlatans, 5, 62, 64, 70, 234 250, 156, 223
chemistry, 4, 26, 39, 66, 85, 184, 202, 205
chemists, 4, 25, 27-8, 33, 39, 41, 65, 85, 113-15, 171, 161, 169, 172, 134
chemotherapy, 78-9
Chernobyl, 189, 206
China, 6, 17, 32, 62, 78
cholesterol, 77, 73
Cincinnati, 138
Ciona, 225
clairvoyance, 67, 70
Cleveland, 139
cognitive dissonance, 106-7, 118, 133-5, 146, 156
cold fusion, 6-7, 9, 25-6, 28-36, 83, 112-13, 144, 171, 176, 178-9, 184, 234
Collier's magazine 137
Colorado, 40, 53
colour-blindness, 108
Columbia University, 142, 16
comets, 110 136, 140
computers, 17, 23, 30, 57, 92, 98, 101, 118, 182, 199-202, 208
Concorde, 182
congress, 89, 161
COPUS, 154-5
cortisone, 81
cranks, 7, 35, 62, 85, 91, 100, 102, 143-4, 158, 159, 172-3, 175-6, 183-4
creosote, 4, 65
crops, 205
cryptozoology, 157
crystalline, 47, 66, 229
CSICOP, 152-7
Culham, 34-5, 113
cults, 146, 209
cyanine, 67
cyclotrons, 216

Dallas, 27
Daresbury, 93
Darwin College, Cambridge, 51
Darwinism, 83-90, 94, 211, 224-5, 228-9, 231
Davis-Barnes experiment, 162, 167
DDT, 134, 133, 205
democracy, 133, 136, 211
deuterium, 24, 26, 30
dicyanin, 67
Dido, 15
discoverers, 4, 22, 64, 134-5, 159, 166, 178
discoveries, 5, 8, 20, 22-3, 25, 38, 40, 63, 74, 83-4, 91-2, 96, 100, 113, 119, 133, 144, 154, 160, 178, 182, 192, 194-5, 200, 223, 232
DNA, 32, 131-2, 202-4, 213
doctrines, 68, 143, 173
dogmatism, 70, 173, 175, 186
dowsers, 182, 184
drugs, 79, 80-2, 127

Earth, 7, 22, 38, 58, 68, 74, 77, 110, 136, 141, 142, 158-9, 176, 180, 186, 189, 199, 210-11, 213, 223, 232
eclipses, 185, 187, 189, 210
Edinburgh, 32, 66, 93
electricity, 5, 11, 15, 17-19, 23, 25, 27, 30-2, 40, 43, 47, 60, 63, 70, 83, 91-2, 111, 141, 161, 165, 170, 200, 202, 209
electrochemistry, 25, 36, 84
electrodes, 29, 30, 72, 128
electromagnetism, 4, 40, 46, 62, 73, 84, 111, 140, 200, 234
electrons, 47, 70-1, 111, 161-3, 169-71, 216
elements, 39, 111, 113, 115, 150, 146, 165-6, 163, 204
elephants, 200, 210
embryology, 223
embryos, 4, 29, 65, 179, 182, 202, 223-30
EMG, 128
Empedoclean paradigm, 189
empiricism, 4, 6, 7, 153, 158, 181-2, 185-6, 188-3, 205, 211, 216-17
epidermis, 227
epilepsy, 208
ESP, 41, 46, 54, 87-8, 150-1, 153, 233
ethyl acetate, 169
Ethyl-Dow Corporation, 134
Europe, 3, 35, 63, 110, 127, 149, 180, 196, 138, 225
evolution, 90, 224-5, 230
eyes, 14, 16, 24, 61, 106, 110, 159, 162, 179, 208, 212

fascism, 69, 109, 121
FDA, 63-70
filament, 18, 159-60
fission reactor, 27, 32, 117-14
flatfish, 202
Bight, 11-13, 22, 74, 83, 31, 146, 158, 177, 178, 180, 184
Florida, 143, 172
France, 32, 42, 46-8, 115, 191, 196
Frankfurt, 60
fraud, 18, 29-30, 42-3, 47, 50, 63, 84, 146-8, 151, 153, 223-4, 226, 228, 230, 232-3
freon, 134, 193
Freudianism, 211

gamma-rays, 29, 112
gaussmeter, 38, 44, 156
geiger counter, 37-8, 45, 60
genes, 53, 202-3, 226
genetics, 139, 202-4, 225-6
geology, 135-7
Germany, 4, 16-17, 22, 60, 62, 66, 68, 150, 191, 133
gestalt, 114, 116, 143
government, 32, 80-2, 32-4, 97-8, 128, 134, 148, 193, 195, 196-8, 206
gravity, 25, 36, 180-1
Greece, 136, 189, 210

Greenwich, 93
guardians, 5, 7, 91, 84-5, 133-5, 143-4, 152, 154, 156, 190

Harvard, 56, 96, 137, 139-41
Harwell, 6, 28, 32, 34-5, 112
helium, 24, 26, 29, 161
heresy, 143, 147, 225
HIV, 7
Hodgkin's disease, 96
Hokkaido University, 6, 32
holistic medicine, 6, 8-9, 77, 79, 81, 84, 98
Hollywood, 187
hologram, 31
hospital, 67, 77, 81-2, 95, 98, 101, 124, 150
hovercraft, 92
hydrocarbons, 140
hydrogen, 24-5, 265-7
hypertension, 96
hypnotherapy, 78-9, 85, 93, 184
hypnotism, 62-3, 65-6, 70, 73, 123

immune system, 22, 62, 74-6, 80, 123, 138, 144, 205, 234
immunosuppression 80
immuno-enhancement, 80
India, 16, 62
insects, 67, 134, 205
insulin, 81, 195
inventions, 14-15, 17, 13, 20-2, 26, 40, 70, 83, 113, 178, 182, 192, 200
inventors, 4, 17, 19-20, 67, 183
Iowa, 96
iron, 15, 44, 66, 159
isotopes, 24, 165, 166-7, 169
Italy, 179

Jacobins, 196
Japan, 16-17, 32, 42, 46, 30
journalists, 9, 22, 30, 155, 172
Jupiter, 140, 142
Jutland, battle of, 17, 27

keratin, 131
King's College, London, 41-2,
Kirlian photography, 71-3, 234
Kitty Hawk, 11, 177, 178
krypton, 113

L'Aigle, 3
Lancet, 6, 74, 76, 78
lanthanum, 113
Laputa, 213
Leeds, 98
Leningrad, 60, 151
leukaemias, 97
libratory (movement of moon) 140
Linotype Company, 15, 91
lithium, 25, 35
London, 19, 21, 37, 41, 48, 53, 63-4, 67, 76, 119, 131, 155, 191, 201
Lorenzo's oil, 183
Los Alamos, 6, 32, 112
Luftwaffe, 197
luminiferous ether, 181
lymphocyte, 75
lymphoma, 37

magnetism, 3-5, 38, 40, 44, 59, 63-6, 111, 136, 140-2, 162, 165, 235
magneto-optical apparatus, 165-7
Malta, 15
Manchester, 98
Manhattan, 131, 194
Maryland University, 87
Massachusetts, 29
Mauritania, 15
mechanics, 11, 12, 140, 179, 192, 220
mechanisms, 7, 9, 56, 85, 89-90, 95, 107, 127, 161, 192, 205-6, 208-9, 211, 224-6, 234
media, 88, 143, 157
medicine, 60, 62-4, 74, 77- 36-9, 223, 151, 164, 184
meditation, 78, 81
melanin, 228
Menlo Park, 17-18
meta-analysis, 53-7
metabolism, 62, 73-4
metal, 25-6, 44-5, 47-8, 63, 66, 155-6, 184
metallurgy, 45, 65-6
meteorites, 3-4, 65, 83
meteorology, 85, 114, 201
Mexico, 71, 131
Michigan, 139
microbiology, 90, 202-5
micro-PK, 56-7
Minnesota, 106, 151
MIT, 6, 29-32, 112, 178
MITI, 72
mitochondria, 204
mitogenic rays, 59-61, 164-5, 167, 182
molecules, 140, 203-4, 219
morbidity, 73-80, 36, 125
morphogenetic fields, 71
mortality, 80, 96, 125
Moscow, 59-60, 90, 164
MRC, 99 <=Medical Research Council>
myelin, 183

NASA, 74, 158, 186, 217
Nature, 6, 22, 25, 33, 134, 144-5, 147-8, 176, 224, 227
nausea, 78-9
Nazis, 68, 121
neurasthenic, 65-6
neutrons, 26-7, 29
NHS, 98-9, 101
NICE, 130
Norway, 68
Novosibirsk, 60, 164
N-rays, 159-60, 162, 167-9

Occam's razor, 185
odic force (odyle), 66
Ohio, 11-12, 177
oil, 4, 65, 81, 170-1, 183-4
orbit, 22, 74, 77, 110, 136, 140
organic, 63, 65, 140, 194, 204-5, 229
organisms, 40, 62-3, 71-2, 84, 124, 126, 200, 202, 205, 220, 225, 229, 234
orgone, 68-70
Osaka University, 6, 32
Oxford University, 32
Oxfordshire, 34, 93
oxygen, 24, 64, 117
ozone, 195

PAC, 93 [=Public Accounts Committee>]
palaeontology, 136
palladium, 25, 27, 34
paradigms, 6, 73, 85, 91, 109-11, 114-17, 133-5, 143-4, 152, 154, 156, 179, 181-2, 185, 189, 232
paraffin, 4, 17, 65
paranormal, 5, 37-3, 41-2, 44-6, 48, 50-3, 55-6, 66, 70-2, 112, 145-6, 148, 151-3, 184, 213, 227
parapsychology, 51-7, 87-8, 145, 151, 153, 156-7
Paris, 48, 50, 60, 63-4, 192-3, 201
parliament, 89, 94, 196, 211
Passchendale, 131-2
pathological science, 33, 68, 161, 166-9, 171-2, 174, 178
PEAR laboratory (Princeton), 56-7
pendulum, 115-17
penicillin, 81, 195
Perrot-Warrick fund, 51
pesticides, 134, 205
pharmacology, 78
Phobos, 213
phonograph, 17
photography, 11, 50, 67, 70-2, 31-2, 112, 164, 225, 227-8, 234
physicians, 64, 67, 78
physicists, 4, 9, 22, 24, 26, 28, 38, 40, 42-3, 58, 63, 131, 138, 142-3, 145, 159-60, 163, 171, 181, 187, 133, 213-14, 218
physics, 3, 28, 35-8, 57, 85, 88, 92, 113, 127, 141, 161, 169, 170-2, 174, 179, 181, 184, 186, 188-3, 213
physiology, 80, 127
pigs, 202, 230
Pisa, 115
placebo effect, 55- 80, 235
planets, 63, 110, 136, 140, 158, 130, 193, 213, 217, 235
plasma, 25, 29-30
platinum, 25, 34
plutonium, 131
polaroid, 92
poles, 66, 235
poltergeists, 150, 184
Preece, Sir William, 1879 'rejection of Alexander Graham Bell's offer of the telephone' on the grounds that 'Britain has plenty of small boys to run messages.'
pregnancy, 78, 99-100
Princeton University, 56-7, 140, 142, 208
protein, 77, 132, 204
proton, 26
PSB, 89 <=Public Sector Broadcasting in US>
psychiatry, 53, 74-6, 148-50
psychics, 33, 48, 51, 53, 151, 155, 184
psychoanalysis, 68
psychodrama, 249
psychokinesis, 39, 41, 43, 48-3, 54, 56-8, 184, 223, 233-4
psychologists, 51, 53, 58, 73, 105, 119, 121, 123, 127, 135, 145, 214
psychology, 52, 57, 68, 69, 72, 76, 102, 103, 114, 117, 119, 122-3, 126, 133, 152
psychotherapy, 68-9, 76-8, 80, 149 has interesting list from US, all 'initiated by a single powerful personality'
pulsars, 174

quantum physics, 218-20
quartz, 50, 59-60, 164
quasars, 174

radiation, 27, 37, 40, 45, 50, 59-61, 73, 111-12, 159-60, 234
radioactivity, 27, 37, 45, 113, 162-3, 183, 200, 206
radiolaria, 223
radium, 113
reductionism, 154, 204, 210
reductionists, 5, 79, 115, 154-5, 173, 189, 207-9, 233
refrigerant, 134
relativity theory, 181, 85-7, 216, 219
respiratory, 127
retrograde motion (Venus), 141
Rosenheim, 150-1
Russia, 15-16, 22, 46, 60, 70, 151, 164, 212
Rutherford-Appleton laboratory 171

San Diego, 75
satellite, 141-2, 158, 213
Schenectady, 161
science-as-control, 200
science fiction, 136
Scientific American, 1906, writes Wright Brothers must be hoaxers because the American press had written nothing about them.
scientism, 206
scintillations, 162-4
Scotland, 8, 93
sea, 14-16, 210, 218, 225-9
Sellafield, 189, 206
semiconductors, 193
SERC, 93 [UK science and engineering research council]
skepticism, 7, 13-14, 23, 39, 53, 71, 152, 154, 158, 184, 226, 233
Skylab, 74
smallpox, 199
sodium, 33
Somme, 23, 191-2
space, 22, 28, 44-5, 68, 71, 90, 140, 142, 152, 158, 174, 186, 193, 199, 202, 213
spacecraft, 140, 217
spades, 105-6, 208
spirits, 5, 7, 21, 77, 41, 89, 112, 122, 134, 152, 189, 192, 199, 202, 203
spiritualism, 70
Spithead, 13-15
SRI, 147-8, 156
Stanford University, 6, 27, 32, 44, 72, 106, 112, 145, 147, 152, 155, 171, 174
stars, 25, 110, 185, 187, 204, 210-11
statistics, 52, 54, 56, 57, 80, 95, 127, 130, 167-8, 171, 201, 216, 218, 235
steam, 14, 19, 180
sulphur, 66
supernatural, 35, 37, 46, 150
supernormal, 50-1
superstitions, 4, 41, 51-2, 12 211
Switzerland, 63, 230
Sydney University, 141
symptoms, 68-9, 76, 78-3, 120, 168, 178, 185
syndrome, 100, 110

table-turning, 5
tabooism, 83-4
taboos, 13, 5-7, 10, 22, 36, 58, 60, 62, 65, 73, 77, 78, 80, 82-91, 100-3, 129, 135, 150, 209
tanks, 20, 23, 183
Tantric Bhuddism, [sic; tantric Buddhism] 62
Taoism, 62, 146
technology, 13, 26, 28-9, 32, 93-4, 38, 120, 163, 182, 188, 133, 200, 215
telekinesis, 48
telepathy, 39, 51, 232
television, 9, 21-2, 26, 36, 42, 44, 88, 90, 92, 155, 183, 199
tetraethyl lead, 194
Texas, 6, 27, 72, 112
thalidomide, 78
thermonuclear reaction, 24, 137
threshold effects, 52, 60, 164, 168, 171, 178, 182, 214
Tokyo University, 32
tritium, 26-7, 29, 112, 165-7, 163
Tsushima, 16
tuberculosis, 205
turbine, 14, 19, 22, 84, 91, 113
Turbinia, 14
Twyford Down, 206

UCLA, 71
UFOs, 146, 153- 1589, 232
uranium, 113
Uranus, 110
Utah University, 5- 25-6, 28

valium, 81
Venus, 136, 240-2
video, 44, 233
videotape, 42, 47, 70, 155-6
Vienna, 4, 63, 68, 224-5, 227-8
Virginia, 38, 174
virginium, 166, 169
viruses, 60-1, 133
vision, 20, 114, 116, 212
visualisation, 80
vitamins, 81
voltage, 42, 70, 72, 161-3, 170
vomiting, 78

warships, 13, 15, 17
Washington, DC, 83, 141, 167, 169, 201
water, 6, 24-5, 27, 30-1, 34-6, 39-40, 43, 72-73, 114, 140, 165, 166, 184, 183, 217, 225-6, 232, 234
weapons, 6, 32, 183, 191-4, 197
weasels, 207-8
weather, 114, 201
whales, 207-8
Wiltshire, 93
wind-tunnel, 178
wireless, 22, 178, 183
Wurtzburg, 111

Xerography, 32
X-ray(s), 67, 111-12, 159, 176, 204

yeast, 60
yoga, 62

Zen, 146
zinc, 66, 164
zoology, 229-30

FULL INDEX OF NAMES

Abelson, Philip, 142
Allison, Fred, 165-9, 171
Anderson, Poul, 142
Aristotle, 115-17, 189, 220, 232
Arp, Halton, 174

Bacon, Francis, 190
Bailar, John, 96
Bailey, V. A., 141
Baird, John Logie, 21-2, 92
Baldwin, Stanley, 197
Bargmann, Valentin 143
Barnes, Arthur, 161-3, 168
Bateson, William, 227
Beale, Norman, 98-9, 101
Beard, Luther, 12-13
Benz, Carl, 31
Berne, Eric, 124, 149
Bessemer, Henry, 15
Blackmore, Susan, 152, 229-30
Blondlot, René-Prosper, 159-62, 169
Bodmer, Sir Walter, 155
Bohm, David, 37
Bohr, Nils, 163
Bouvaist, Jean, 47
Bower, Bruce, 75
Braid, James, 66
Broughton, Richard, 53-4, 57, 156-7
Brown, Harrison, 108, 138, 143
Bruner, J. S., 105-6, 212
Buridan, Jean, 116
Burke, B. F., 140
Burkitt, Dennis, 97
Bush, Robert, 32

Campbell-Swinton, A. A., 22
Carson, Rachel, 199
Charnley, John, 98
Churchill, Winston, 20
Clancarty, Earl of, 158, 176
Clare, Anthony, 148-50
Cockerell, Christopher, 92
Coghill, Roget, 73
Cohen, I. Bernard, 139
Connor, Steve, 53, 172
Conway, Ashley, 79-80, 123-9
Copernicus, Nicholas, 144
Cox, James, 12
Crick, Francis, 92, 132, 203-4
Crookes, Sir William, 112
Crussard, Charles, 47

Dalton, John, 85, 114-15
Darko, Denis, 75
Darwin, Charles, 51, 85, 135, 224, 229-30
Davies, David, 147
Davis, Bergen, 161-3, 168
de Mole, E. L., 13, 23
de la Warr, George, 146
Descartes, René, 117
Deslon, Charles, 64
Dewar, Admiral, 123
Dixon, Bernard, 147
Dixon, Norman, 119-20, 122-4
Dombal, Tim de, 98
Dumitrescu, Ion, 72

Eastman, George, 91
Eberhardt, Dr Von, 193
Eckert, J. Presper, 92
Eddington, Sir Arthur, 177, 187
Edison, Thomas, 11, 17-19, 83, 85, 91
Edward, Prince of Wales, 13
Edwards, Robert, 38
Einstein, Albert, 63, 181, 185-6, 214
Empedocles, 183
Evans, Christopher, 145-7, 150
Eysenck, Hans, 53, 76, 121, 233

Fairbank, Bill, 171
Faraday, Michael, 3-5, 7, 19, 40, 165, 200, 215
Festinger, Leon, 106-3, 146, 212, 218
Flanagan, Dennis, 143
Fleischmann, Martin, 5-6, 25, 27-33, 35-6, 85, 112-13, 171-2, 198, 234
Fox, William, 21
Fox sisters, 5
Franklin, Benjamin, 64, 193
Franklin, K. L., 140
Frazier, Kendrick, 152
Frederick, Laurence, 174
Freud, Sigmund, 68, 186

Galileo, 115-17, 144, 153, 179, 173, 180, 219
Gauquelin, Michel, 153-4, 216
Gauze, Georgi, 90
Geller, Uri, 38, 41-6, 58, 112, 144, 147-8, 150, 155-6, 213, 223, 232-3
Girard, Jean-Pierre, 46-7
Gish, Duane, 90
Grazia, Alfred de, 139, 139, 143
Gregory, William, 49, 66
Gurdjieff, George, 146
Gurwitsch, Alexander, 59-62, 164-5, 182, 234

Haber, Fritz, 91 <'self-taught chemist'>
Haeckel, Ernst, 223, 229-32
Hahn, Otto, 113-14, 214-14
Haldane, J. B. S., 207, 214-15
Hall, Asaph, 213, 215
Hall, Barry, 234
Hall, Robert N., 161
Hanlon, Joe, 147-8
Hansel, C. E. M., 192-3
Hasted, John, 37-8, 42, 47
Herbert, C. V. C., 48-50, 151
Herget, Paul, 138-9
Herschel, William, 110
Hertz, Heinrich, 22
Hess, H. H., 142
Hewlett, Clarence, 162-3
Horrobin, David, 95-6, 125, 128
Huggins, Robert, 27
Huizenga, John, 39-6, 144
Hume, David, 217
Humphrey, Nicholas, 51-2

Janov, Arthur, 149
Jefferson, Thomas, 3, 22
Jones, Steve, 27
Jones, Sir Harold Spencer, 22
Juergens, Ralph, 135-6, 141
Jung, Carl, 214

Kammerer, Paul, 224-9, 231-2
Kant, Immanuel, 202
Kelvin, Lord, 111-12, 176, 183
Kilner, Walter, 62, 67
Kirlian, Semyon, 62, 70-3, 184, 234
Kiyota, Masuaki, 46
Knowles, Julie, 46
Koestler, Arthur, 37-8, 52, 212, 224, 232
Koonin, Steve, 28
Korochkin, Leonid, 90
Kristiakovsky, George, 131
Kuhn, Thomas, 103-11, 114-17
Kulagina, Nina, 46, 151, 213
Kumler, Dan, 12
Kurtt, Paul, 152, 154

Lafleur, Laurence, 143-4, 173, 175
Lamb, Charles, 17
Langmuir, Irving, 161-4, 166-72, 174, 178
Larrabee, Eric, 141
Latimer, Wendell, 166-3
Laurie, Peter, 251
Lavoisier, Antoine, 64, 116-17
Lawrentz, Margaret, 167
Lawson, Hilary, 88, 103
Le Poer Trench, Brinsley, 158
Leahy, William, 22
Lewis, C. S., 129-30
Lewis, Gilbert, 266-7
Lewis, Nathan, 28
Lodge, Sir Oliver, 224

Maddox, John, 134
Mallove, Eugene, 23-32
Maple, John, 34
Marconi, Guglielmo, 22, 91, 178, 183
Marie Antoinette, 196
Marx, Karl, 186, 211
Mauchly, John, 92
Maxwell, James Clerk, 111, 200
McClenon, John, 87
McGhee, J. L., 167, 169
McKubre, Michael, 32
McLaughlin, Dean, 139
Medawar, Sir Peter, 181, 191
Mellor, Hugh, 51
Menzel, Donald, 141-2
Mergenthaler, Otto, 91
Mesmer, Franz Anton, 62-7
Michelson, Albeit, 186
Midgley, Thomas, 194-5, 199
Miller, Dayton, 186
Millikan, Robert, 169-71, 178
Montieth, Henry, 71
Moreno, Jacob, 149
Morgan, J. P., 19
Morley, Edward, 186
Morris, Robert, 52
Morrison, Philip, 131
Morton, Henry, 18
Moss, Thelma, 71
Motz, Lloyd, 142

Nelson, Roger, 56-7, 234
Newcomb, Simon, 11, 22, 178
Newton, Sir Isaac, 117, 127, 135, 181, 185, 199, 215
Niépce, Joseph, 178
Nixon, Peter, 77
Noble, G. K., 158, 227
North, Stephen, 46
Novotny, Maria, 65-6

O'Brien, Richard, 203
Odone, Lorenzo, 183, 285
Oldfield, Harry, 73, 184
Oppenheimer, Robert, 193
Oresme, Nicole, 116
Orwell, George, 134, 205
Osty, Eugène, 48, 50

Parker, Ronald, 29-30
Parsons, Charles, 14-15, 17, 19, 22, 91, 119
Pascal, Blaise, 113, 199, 220
Pasteur, Louis, 61
Pauli, Wolfgang, 214
Pauling, Linus, 131-2
Penfield, Wilder, 208-3, 235
Peper, Erik, 127-8
Perls, Fritz, 143
Petrasso, Robert, 29-30
Piaget, Jean, 224
Piccardi, Giorgio, 39-40, 234
Podmore, Frank, 64
Pollen, Arthur, 15-17, 23, 92, 119
Pons, Stanley, 5, 25, 27-9, 32-3, 35-6, 85, 171-2, 198
Popper, Sir Karl, 7, 185-7
Postman, Leo, 105-6, 212
Price, George, 152
Priestley, Joseph, 116-17
Przibram, Hans, 224, 227-8
Purdy, Jean, 98
Puthoff, Harold, 42-4, 143, 147, 156
Putnam, James, 133

Radin, Dean, 57, 233-4
Randi, James, 155-6
Rawlins, Dennis, 154
Rayleigh, Lady, 48
Rebut, Paul Henri, 35, 113
Reich, Wilhelm, 3, 62, 67-70, 134, 146, 149, 184, 188, 191, 205
Reichenbach, Karl von, 4-5, 62, 65-7
Rhine, J. B., 151-2
Rivière, Jacques, 134
Robertson, H. P., 138
Roentgen, Wilhelm, 67, 111-12, 153
Rogers, Carl, 143
Rolf, Ida, 143
Rosenthal, Robert, 56
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 74
Rutherford, Ernest, 167, 169, 183

Sargent, Carl, 51
Schacter, S., 108
Schneider, Rudi, 48-50, 58, 213
Shapley, Harlow, 137, 139-40
Sharpe, Robert, 97-8
Shchurin, S. P., 60-2, 164, 234
Sheldrake, Rupert, 134, 198
Shelley, Mary, 199
Siemens, Sir William, 18, 60
Smith, Elaine, 96
Smith, Peter, 172
Soal, R. G., 151
Stecchini, Livio, 135
Steiner, Rudolph, 146
Steptoe, Patrick 38
Strassman, Fritz, 113
Stratton, George, 114
Strowger, Armon, 31
Sturrock, Peter, 100, 152, 174-5, 233
Sueter, Murray, 20
Swartz, Mitchell, 31
Swift, Jonathan, 24, 26, 213

Targ, Russell, 42-4, 145, 156
Tate, Nick, 30
Taylor, John, 37, 41-2, 44-6, 59, 71-2, 77, 112, 150-1
Tesla, Nikola, 13, 22, 70, 84, 91, 184
Thoreau, Henry, 158
Truman, Harry S., 22
Truzzi, Marcello, 152
Turing, Alan, 32

Vanderbilt, William, 13
Velikovsky, Immanuel, 135-43, 172-3
Victoria, Queen, 13, 183
von Braun, Wernher, 193

Ward, Maurice, 183, 185
Watson, James, 32, 131-2, 203
West, Donald, 51
Whitehead, A. N., 220
Wilde, Oscar, 105
Williams, Nicolas, 46
Wolpert, Lewis, 155
Wood, R. W., 160-1
Wright, Orville and Wilbur, 11-13, 17, 22, 83, 85, 91, 143, 159, 177-3, 182-3