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Article #5976Re: Royal Mail's Nobel guru in telepathy row
From: Robin Hayman
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:05
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:05
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All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting. -- Lord Kelvin Michael Painter <m.painter@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:Ohlx7.98225$3d2.2795175@bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net... > > "Michael Jameson" <m.jameson@hunterlink.net.au> wrote in message > news:3BC57FBC.7C836763@hunterlink.net.au... > > Royal Mail's Nobel guru in telepathy row > > > > Robin McKie, science editor > > Sunday September 30, 2001 > > The Observer > > > > It was meant to be a simple celebration of the world's greatest > > intellectual prize. But this week's issue of six special stamps to > > honour the 100th anniversary of the Nobel prize has dropped the Royal > > Mail into an unexpected, and decidedly bitter, scientific row. > > > > Scientists are furious that a booklet, published as part of the stamps' > > presentation package, contains claims that modern physics will one day > > lead to an understanding of telepathy and the paranormal. > > > > 'It is utter rubbish,' said David Deutsch, quantum physics expert at > > Oxford University. 'Telepathy simply does not exist. The Royal Mail has > > let itself be hoodwinked into supporting ideas that are complete > > nonsense.' > > > > Last week Royal Mail officials defended their actions by pointing out > > that the offending paragraphs had been written by a Nobel laureate, > > Cambridge physicist Brian Josephson. 'Yes, I think telepathy exists,' he > > told The Observer, 'and I think quantum physics will help us understand > > its basic properties.' > > > > Professor Josephson won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1973 for proving > > that some materials could act as switches operating close to the speed > > of light, and could revolutionise computing and power transmission. He > > said he had deliberately used the booklet to redress a serious imbalance > > in reporting paranormal research work. 'I think journals like Nature and > > Science are censoring such research,' he said. 'There is a lot of > > evidence to support the existence of telepathy, for example, but papers > > on the subject are being rejected - quite unfairly.' > > > > Josephson believes that psychics and telepaths may be able to direct > > random energy at sub-atomic levels for their own purposes, and in the > > commemorative stamp booklet writes that developments in information and > > quantum theories 'may lead to an explanation of processes still not > > understood within conventional science, such as telepathy'. > > > > Full text - > > http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,560604,00.html > > > > Newton was a nut also. > Read the whole article to see what others think about this. > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f44bc,22e5a7dce413a8a4 X-Google-Attributes: gidf44bc,public X-Google-Thread: 113e84,22e5a7dce413a8a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid113e84,public X-Google-Thread: 1045ed,22e5a7dce413a8a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid1045ed,public X-Google-Thread: 107787,22e5a7dce413a8a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid107787,public X-Google-Thread: 10b271,22e5a7dce413a8a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b271,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-12 07:05:33 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!server3.netnews.ja.net!ucl.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: "Robin Hayman" <ucgarmh@ucl.ac.uk> Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,alt.paranormal,bionet.neuroscience,sci.physics,alt.philosophy Subject: Re: Royal Mail's Nobel guru in telepathy row Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:05:32 +0100 Organization: University College London Lines: 60 Message-ID: <9q6t4d$bls$1@uns-a.ucl.ac.uk> References: <3BC57FBC.7C836763@hunterlink.net.au> <Ohlx7.98225$3d2.2795175@bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dali.psychol.ucl.ac.uk X-Trace: uns-a.ucl.ac.uk 1002895309 11964 128.40.26.88 (12 Oct 2001 14:01:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ucl.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Oct 2001 14:01:49 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200