Now that someone has brought up Hagelin and "yogic flying" and how ridiculous both are, I can finally pass along this cartoon I found the other day. Despite its author's obvious problems with spelling, it struck me as nailing the whole silly mess. Hagelin and people like him really think they are flying...
[https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/525683_401268413\ 277516_1536616902_n.jpg] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card" <cardemaister@> wrote: > > > > > > This was a fact. The crime rate did drop by 18%. However, > > > the rate that dropped by 18% was not the number of crimes > > > actually committed in fact, during the experiment, > > > Washington's weekly murder count hit the highest level > > > ever recorded. The 18% drop was from Hagelin's computer > > > prediction of what would have happened had his meditators > > > not been meditating and levitating. > > > > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/oct/08/meditation-crime-prevent\ ion-research > > > > > > "In the election of 2000, he lost to George W Bush by only > > 50,372,288 votes " Chortle. > > I liked, "Hagelin is, by his own admission, a remarkable man." > > The author, Mark Abrahams, is one of the funniest and most > refreshing voices in science, and organizer of the yearly > Ig Noble Awards (of which Hagelin is recipient). To see > other articles he's written for The Guardian, click on > his name at the top of the article or go here: > http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/marcabrahams > > I particularly liked his riff on the ludicrousness of > what the "scientific method" has degenerated into in > the article "Medics submit Playboy magazine to peer > review." > http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/oct/29/research-child-pornograp\ hy-tanner-scales >
