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CSICOP Announce: Articles, Pensar and John Edward Ratings
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Larry King and the Paranormal
by Leon Jaroff
TIME
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/jaroff/article/0,9565,538305,00.html
"Cable News Network calls itself “The Most Trusted Name In News.” One
of CNN’s best rated shows, the award-winning “Larry King Live,” has
contributed to that trust with candid interviews of such prominent guests
as Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Vladimir Putin, Jimmy Carter and Margaret
Thatcher, as well as by hosting the memorable 1993 debate between Al Gore
and Ross Perot."
Editors Note: see the Chris Mooney column at: http://www.csicop.org/doubtandabout/larryking/
Does Science Matter?
By WILLIAM J. BROADand JAMES GLANZ
New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/science/11MATT.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5062&en=c12adf4ed92d26a8&ex=1069131600&partner=GOOGLE>
"Through its rituals of discovery, science has extended life, conquered
disease and offered new sexual and commercial freedoms. It has pushed aside
demigods and demons and revealed a cosmos more intricate and awesome than
anything produced by pure imagination."
Cloning, Revisited
By Amanda Onion
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/Living/humancloningrevisited031105.html
"Remember human cloning?"
Riot at 'woman-tigress hanging'
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3255205.stm
"A riot broke out after police tried to disperse a crowd gathered to watch
the rumoured hanging of a "woman-tigress", Iran's Jomhuri-Eslami paper
reports."
HELP — Jacko Really Needs Somebody
By Roger Friedman
FOX News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,102210,00.html
"HELP — the Scientology-based literacy program — is back on the Web site
Michael Jackson is using to raise money for charity. "
Factories Seek To Fix Kokomo Hum
Associated Press
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/2623656/detail.html
"The discovery of the likely source of a mysterious hum irritating some
Kokomo residents has prompted two local factories to try to fix industrial
fans identified as the problem."
Nobel Prize-winning scientist wows some, worries others
By JoANNE VIVIANO
YOUNGSTOWN VINDICATOR
http://www.vindy.com/local_news/279051929445300.php
"Hundreds of Youngstown State University students crammed into a lecture
hall Wednesday to hear the thoughts of a man considered a legend in the
field of biology."
Board gives final approval to biology books
by APRIL CASTRO
Associated Press
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/7208838.htm
"Biology books in Texas will continue to present the origin of life
according to the theories of Charles Darwin."
Intelligent design doesn't belong in science class
by Jamie Crannell
Minneapolis Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/4199942.html
"The science we teach in Minnesota ought to be limited to science. Theology
and religious views should not be confused with science."
The Big Chill at the Lab
By BOB HERBERT
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/03/opinion/03HERB.html?ex=1068613200&en=150371975ae987c1&ei=5070
"A list of nearly 200 scientific researchers has been compiled and given to
federal officials by the Traditional Values Coalition, a conservative group
that goes wild over gay issues and federal funding of research related to
human sexuality."
Rousing Science Out of the Lab and Into the Limelight
By CORNELIA DEAN
New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/science/11EXPL.html?ex=1069131600&en=cc8b40565af99f34&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
"Last summer, the pollster Daniel Yankelovich reported what might seem a
strange finding: scientists are distressed by the media's insistence on
presenting "both sides.""
The soul hypothesis: Scientist wonders if there is proof for existence of
consciousness
By Elaine Jarvik
Deseret Morning News
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,525036215,00.html
"With science, it has always been a question of matter over mind. The
actual brain, gray and wrinkly and full of electrical activity, can be
measured and mapped, so that's fine. But the mind — the part of you that
thinks it thinks, the feeling you have that you willed your arm to move or
decided to order the salad instead of the burger — that's just an illusion,
just the by-product of nerve activity, neuroscientists say. Consciousness,
they argue, is really just one big neuronal machine."
Will We Ever Find Atlantis?
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/science/11ATLA.html
"Somewhere in the imagination, at an intersection of the idealized Golden
Age and mankind's descent into manifest imperfection, existed the island
civilization of Atlantis. This realm of divine origin was ruled from a
splendid metropolis in the distant ocean. Its empire, described by a
philosopher as "larger than Libya and Asia combined," enjoyed prosperity
and great power."
Do Paranormal Phenomena Exist?
By KENNETH CHANG
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/science/11PARA.html
"Mention mind reading, ghosts, premonitions, the bending of spoons through
thought or other supposed mysteries of the paranormal, and most scientists
will say there are no such things."
For More Stories Visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skepticsearch/
2) New CSICOP Publication Makes TV Debut in Argentina
>From Pensar Editor Alejandro Borgo:
Hi people, here is the first time "Pensar" appears on tv.
It was an interview for a tv special broadcast by the official national TV
about Ghosts and Haunted Houses.
It shows the www.pensar.org address.
Best,
Alejandro
3) and finally...
>From Marc Berman's Mediaweek column this week:
National Ratings in Syndication:
Season To-Date Update
What follows are updated household ratings (GAA - gross average audience
when available) through the week of Oct. 13 broken out by genre in
syndication. Percent change versus the comparable year-ago period is in
parentheses for all established series.
TALK
Oprah: 6.5 (+12), Dr. Phil: 5.3 (+23), Live With Regis & Kelly: 3.5 (+ 6),
Maury: 3.0 (+ 3), Jerry Springer: 2.7 (+13), Montel: 2.4 (+ 4), Sharon
Osbourne: 1.5, Ricki: 1.4 (- 7), Ellen DeGeneres: 1.4, John Walsh: 1.1
-21), John Edward: 1.1 (-42), Good Day Live, Wayne Brady, Living It Up
with Jack & Ali: 1.0, Ask Rita: 0.7
John Edward: 1.1 (-42)
CSICOP encourages the critical investigation of paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view and disseminates factual information about the results of such inquiries to the scientific community and the public. Find out more: http://www.csicop.org/
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