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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot  As for you, Mrs Cogan, since you seem to have some difficulty understanding what a bibliography is, I've decided to scan two pages from the bibliography of the book I mentioned - "The Intention Experiment". Hopefully the scanned image will give you some idea of the kind of scientific experiments and discoveries that are discussed in the book.
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thank you. I went to the first journal mentioned at the top of the left-hand page and clicked on the first review of the journal itself. Here is what the reviewer said "In fact, experimental data of any kind hardly figure in the first four issues." No kidding. The journal is almost entirely speculation. The referenced article is 7 years old and not on line.
Then I looked up the author of the first 9 articles on the left hand page. Stanley Krippner is into shamanism and how shamans do psychic healing. One of his articles was on Ramtha, a famous fraud, for the Journal of the American Society of Psychical Research
I moved down to the next author, Dr. Krucoff, who had an article on intercessory prayer. I looked up that paper and this was the first sentence of the abstract "Intercessory prayer is widely believed to influence recovery from illness, but claims of benefits are not supported by well-controlled clinical trials." This is the study where they let people know they were being prayed for. The control studies had no difference above chance but the people who knew they were being prayed for got worse, not better. This paper basically disproves the thesis of "The Intention Experiment."
The next paper, also by Krucoff is even more interesting. This was an intercessory prayer study called MANTRA. This is what Krucoff said about his results:
"Adverse outcomes in the prayer group were 50 percent to 100 percent fewer than in the standard therapy group. In the patients who received any of the noetic therapies, including prayer, we found a 30 percent reduction for every adverse outcome we measured."
He knew his target audience would not actually look at the evidence. Other scientists did:
“If one takes the trouble to read the MANTRA I study,” says Skolnick, “one can see that the prayed-for group of patients had one more death than the patients in the group who received only standard care. Contrary to what Dr. Krucoff told the news media, there was no difference, impressive or otherwise, in the number of patients who suffered congestive heart failure.”
So this reference also contradicts the thesis of "The Intention Experiment."
That's enough. I have a life. The rest are articles on new age "alternative medicine" (If it worked they'd just call it "medicine"), parapsychology, Akashic fields, Negative/Positive ions, etc. All the usual suspects.
This is not a bibliography, it's a rogues gallery of con artists and pseudoscientists.