home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sunic!ugle.unit.no!alf.uib.no!rmanne-pc.kj.uib.no!nkjrm
- From: nkjrm@taxus.uib.no (Rolf Manne)
- Subject: Matthew Manning's psychokinetic achievements
- Message-ID: <nkjrm.109@taxus.uib.no>
- Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount)
- Organization: University of Bergen
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:03:36 GMT
- Lines: 27
-
- Matthew Manning is a British healer, who was the center of "poltergeist"
- phenomena in his youth, and who supposedly not only bends spoons by
- psychic force but who can also increase the death-rate of human cancer cells
- by psychic means. According to my source he has been investigated
- by scientists who regard his achievements as genuine.
- All this has recently been retold in our local newspaper as support of
- certain alternative cancer therapies.
-
- Neither the book by Norwegian author and environmentalist Erik Dammann from
- which this was originally taken, nor the achievements themselves are highly
- credible. I am well aware of the weak - to say the least - scientific status
- of poltergeist phenomena and spoon-bending.
-
- What I want to know, however, is if there exist investigations of scientific
- merit of the claimed achievements of Matthew Manning.
-
- Two investigators of Manning's achievements are named in Dammann's
- book, a Canadian psychiatrist Joel Whitton and a British neurochemist
- Glen Rein. A library search shows Whitton as the author of a book on
- reincarnation and G. Rein as a bona fide scientist but apparently without
- scientific publications bordering upon the paranormal. Does anyone know
- what else these people have done?
-
- Rolf Manne
- Department of Chemistry, University of Bergen
- e-mail: Rolf.Manne@uib.no
-
-