Now there's some serious sounding bullshit.

"Biophotons?" What the hell is that?

I know what a photon is. I know what ultraviolet is. Do you?

You must be in cahoots with those Soviet communist perverts from "Star Trek" that thoroughly infest Paramount Studios.

"Biophotons."

I'm sitting here thinking intently, concentrating hard, my pulse is rising, my surface body heat is rising, you've got some kind of stupid scanner reading my body heat and suddenly it's a spike of "biophotons."

Sounds like a load of bullshit to me.










http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/25/19135355-remember-parapsychology-its-still-being-studied-despite-the-scorn


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Remember parapsychology? It's still being studied – despite the scorn


By Glenn McDonald

Discovery News

It seems that stories of the paranormal sprout up every day, and everywhere, in pop culture and the media. Weird news websites number in the hundreds, and there are entire television series dedicated to psychic abilities, hauntings and paranormal investigation.

But that's all showbiz, really. The actual academic study of parapsychology -- the established term for phenomena such as clairvoyance, psychokinesis, telepathy and precognition -- has seemingly disappeared since its heyday in the mid-20th century. So what happened to parapsychology?

It hasn't gone anywhere, said John Kruth, executive director of the Rhine Research Center in Durham, N.C. It's just become disorganized, underfunded and -- in the realm of traditional science -- largely ignored. The Rhine is one of a handful of privately funded groups in the United States still doing active research into parapsychology, sometimes called "psi phenomena."

"People have never stopped doing research in these areas," Kruth said. "But the skeptic community is strong and vocal, and they're much better at working the media." Kruth attributes much of the field's decline in the United States, during the 1970s and 1980s, to media-savvy debunkers such as James Randi.

"Certainly there are fraudulent practitioners out there, and we're always watching for that," Kruth said. "It's like we have the frauds on one side and the debunkers on the other, and we're in the middle, still trying to do science."

Critics respond that, as a field of scientific study, parapsychology has much bigger issues. In short, the science has a fundamental evidence problem.


Kruth said he has tested dozens of volunteers in the isolation labs, with interesting results. When subjects focused their intent during experiments, their emission of biophotons -- the ultraviolet light emitted by all living things -- would change drastically. Emitted biophotons would spike from a dozen or so per second (as measured through a directed aperture) to hundreds, or thousands. His results were published in the most recent issue of the Journal of Parapsychology, in the study "Electromagnetic Emission From Humans During Focused Intent."

"This is a physical manifestation of the energy that people have been talking about, that scientists have denied." Kruth said. "The skeptics who say we have an evidence problem -- they're not reading the evidence."



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 7:43 PM Pacific Time Seattle USA Tuesday 25 June 2013