The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science (57 page)

Christian condemnation of
14
–
15
,
18

Horsey, Richard
186

Horst Wessel Song (Nazi Party anthem)
239

House of Commons Science and Technology Committee
94

Hrab, George
108

Hume, David
203

Humphrey, Nicholas
43

Huntington’s disease testing
197

HVN
see
Hearing Voices Network

hypnotherapy

and false memory generation
166

and past-life regression
44
–
45
,
47

hypnotism
189

‘I’, sense of
194
,
196
,
258

IBS
see
irritable bowel syndrome

Iceland
83

identity
203

ideology
272

Illuminati
286
–
87
,
288
,
304

imitation
206

immigration
206
,
223

Mexican
223

in-groups
84
,
133

incest
168

information field
257
,
266

INSERM 200
110

intelligence, and cognitive bias
224

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
216

International Academy of Classical Homeopathy
277

Internet
112

intuition
187
,
216
,
238

irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
43

Irving, David
269
,
307
,
308
,
209
,
333
–
335
,
344
,
345

Irving, John
219
,
221
,
238
,
244

Irving, Nicholas
243

itch disorders
117
–
119

see also
Morgellons

Jackson, Peter
312

James, William
106

James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF)
99
,
260
,
275
,
276
,
290
,
294

jealousy, sexual
64
,
66
,
104

Jesus
142

knowableness of
11

Jewish Chronicle
(newspaper)
230

Jews
221
,
230
,
231
,
244
–
51
,
253
,
309

see also
Holocaust denial

Josefstadt Prison, Vienna
220

Journal of the American Medical Association
41

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
113
–
114

Journal of Philosophical Studies
182

JREF
see
James Randi Educational Foundation

Jutland, Battle of
231

Kahneman, Daniel
184
,
303

Kaku, Michio
27

Kaptchuk, Ted
43

Keegan, Sir John
243
–
44

Keen, Montague
284

Keen, Veronica
283
–
88
,
304

Kerry, John
87

KGB
212
,
215

Kilstein, Vered
44
–
51
,
53
,
168
,
305
–
306

King’s Cross station
136

‘koro’
83

Krepel, Scott
78

Krippner, Stanley
288
–
89
,
295

Krupp
233

Kuhn, Deanna
86

Los Angeles

LA Times
(newspaper)
118

LaBerge, Stephen
76
,
195

Labour Party
210

Lancet
(journal)
109
,
113

Langham, Chris
171

Lawrence, Stephen
236

Lebanese people
223

left, political
204
–
207
,
211
,
215

Leitao, Mary
118

Leitao’s Morgellons Research Foundation
118

Lemoine, Patrick
42

Lennon, John
49

Letwin, Oliver
214

Leuchter, Fred
229

Leviticus
14

Lewis, Andy
109
,
114

Lipstadt, Deborah
221
,
224
,
243
,
246
,
309

Literary and Scientific Institutions Act 1854
210

Lo, Nathan
19
–
20
,
22
,
30
,
100
,
308

Loftus, Elizabeth
166
,
173

love
44
,
59

memories of
63
,
133

Lucifer
4

see also
Satan

McCain, John
118

McCullock, Kay
23
–
25

McDonald’s
67
–
68
,
84

Mack, John E.
28
–
30
,
51
,
102
–
103
,
142
,
145
,
272
,
284
–
85

Mackay, Glennys
22
–
23
,
30
,
33

Mackay, John
1
,
4
–
6
,
1
–
11
,
15
–
20
,
30
,
33
,
53
,
91
,
100
,
109
,
182
,
305
,
306
,
308

MacLeish, Eric
29

Maddox, Sir John
271
,
287

magic-makers
7

magnetometers
279

Majdanek concentration camp
224
,
230

Mameli, Matteo
182

manic depression
141

Mann, Nick
130
–
31
,
134
,
162

Marianna, Dame of Malta
208

Marshall, Michael ‘Marsh’
105
–
109

Marxists
210

‘matchbox sign’
124

materialism
256
,
257
–
58
,
259
,
260
–
1
,
266
,
268
–
69

May, Rufus
148
–
49
,
156
,
182
,
196
,
304

meditation, Buddhist
52
–
53
,
62
,
182
,
196

Meffert, Jeffrey
120

Mein Kampf
(Hitler)
232
,
233
,
242

memory

autobiographical
194

fallibility of
201

see also
false memories; recovered-

memory therapy

mental illness
137
,
141
,
146
,
147
,
165

as continuum
147

depression
33
,
42
–
43
,
45
,
89
,
100
,
120
,
148
,
197

manic depression
141

multiple personality disorder
165
,
171
,
173
–
74

obsessive compulsive disorder
128

sectioning
137
,
140
,
161

see also
psychosis; schizophrenia

mental models
76
,
85
,
87
,
90
,
102
,
133
,
142
,
147
,
183
,
302
,
303
,
316

meta-analysis
112
,
146
,
157
,
262
,
267

Metzinger, Thomas
195

Mexican immigration
223

micro-stories
206

Milgram, Stanley
70
–
71

mind

and the brain
255
,
257
–
58
,
266
–
67

as ‘out there’
267

theory of
303

miners’ strike (mid-1980s)
212
,
214
–
15

Mitchell, Joni
118

mites, tropical rat
132
,
135

‘Mitochondrial Eve’
73

Moll, Albert
189

Monckton, Christopher Walter, 3
^rd
Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
200
,
203
–
205
,
207
–
16
,
218
,
304
,
305
,
309
,
310

Monckton, Major General Gilbert, 2
^nd
Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
208

morality
193
,
202

Christian
15

Morgellons
118
–
35
,
162
,
307

see also
Fourth Annual

Morgellons Conference, Austin, Texas

morphine
41

Mosley, Sir Oswald
232

Mragowo
233

multiple personality disorder
165
,
171
,
173
–
74

murder, past-life
44
,
48

murderers
89

Murray, Robin
183

Myers (formerly Felstead), Carole
159
–
61
,
163
–
66
,
168
,
171
–
73
,
176
–
80
,
307

myoclonic jerk
195

myth
302
,
304
,
312
–
313

narratives

hero
302
–
303
,
306
–
14

master
206

nation state, end of
216

National Front
234
,
305

National Health Service (NHS)
94
,
148
,
171

National Secular Society
5

National Union of Teachers
5

Native Americal tradition
186

Natural History Museum
132

natural selection
10

Nature
(journal)
110
–
11
,
257
,
271
,
287
,
304

Nazi Party (German)
220
,
239

Nazis
48
,
89
,
231
,
239

Neanderthals
26

necrophilia
12
,
18

neurological studies
87

neurons
74
–
75
,
220
,
253
,
267

neuroscience
142

New Guinea
83

New Science of Life, A
(Sheldrake)
256
–
57

New Scientist
(journal)
257
–
266

New York Times
(newspaper)
72
,
120
,
271
,
272

New Yorker
(magazine)
268
,
312

Nix, Walte, Jr.
68

Noah
3
,
5
,
13
,
14

Novella, Steven
107
,
112
,
120
,
135
,
272
,
287
,
309

Oaklander, Anne Louise
129
–
130

Oatley, Keith
303

Obama, Barack
118
,
286

obedience studies
84

Observer
(newspaper)
222
,
257

obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
128
,
147

Oedipus
302

Offer, Daniel
194

Ogborn, Louise
67
–
68
,
70
,
84

Olsen, Clarence W.
82

openness
205

Origin of Species
,
The
(Darwin)
2
,
4

original sin
3

Orkney
166

‘other people’, judgement of
67

out-groups
69
,
105

Oxford Union
203
,
207
,
218

paedophilia
15

pain

perception of
41

and the placebo effect
41
,
42
–
43

palm reading
105

paranoia
30
,
64
,
150
,
154
,
178
,
180

parapsychology
261
–
62
,
265
–
67
,
269
,
279
,
280
,
287

past-life regression (PLR)
44
–
45
,
47
,
53
,
168
,
170

Patanjali Yog Peeth Trust
31

Paul McKenna Show, The
(TV show)
263

Pearson, Michele
119

penis

‘koro’ effect
83

phantom
82

Penn and Teller
271
,
290