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ZETETIC SCHOLAR
Journal of the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research
N. 10 December 1982

Name: Gauquelin, Michel; Truzzi, Marcello (1935 - 2003)

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

	Editorial	5-6

Piet Hein HOEBENS	The Mystery Men from Holland, III: The Man Whose Passport Says Clairvoyant	7-16

Aidan A. KELLY	The Invention of Witchcraft: Uses of Documentary and Oral Historical Sources in Reconstructing the History of the Gardnerian Movement	17-26

Harvey H. NININGER	UFOs, Fireballs and Meteorites	27-34

Leonard ZUSNE	"Fingertip Sight": A Bibliography	35-42

R. A. McCONNELL, T. K. CLARK	Guardians of Orthodoxy: The Sponsors of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal	43-49

Richard KAMMANN	The True Disbelievers: Mars Effect Drives Skeptics to Irrationality	50-65

	`On the Mars Effect`
Belgian Committee PARA	A Last Answer to M. Gauquelin	66
Michel GAUQUELIN	Response to the Statement of the Committee PARA	67-71
Michel GAUQUELIN	A Proposal	72-73
Marcello TRUZZI	Personal Reflections on the Mars Effect Controversy	74-81

	RANDOM BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE OCCULT AND THE PARANORMAL	82-88


Ron WESTRUM	Crypto-Science and Social Intelligence about Anomalies	89-102
	Critical Commentaries	102-142

Marcello TRUZZI	Chinese Parapsychology: A Bibliography of English Language Items	143-146


Charles SULLIVAN	On "Patterns of Belief in Religious, Psychic and Other Paranormal Phenomena"	147-149
J. SOBAL, C. F. EMMOS	Reply to Charles Sullivan	149-150

	`Letters`
	ON OCCULTISM & SECULARIZATION	151-152
	ON THE PARA COMMITTEE	153
	ON THE BRUGMANS EXPERIMENT	153-154
	On UFO Theories	154-155
	On Defining UFOs	155-157
	On Defining UFOs	157
	More on UFO Theories	158

	`Book Reviews`
Ron WESTRUM	Raymond E. FOWLER, THE ANDREASSON AFFAIR - The Documented Investigation of a Women's Abduction Aboard a UFO , Ann DRUFFEL, D. Scott ROGO, THE TUJUNGA CANYON CONTACTS , Budd HOPKINS, MISSING TIME	164-165
	Review: Raymond E. FOWLER,THE ANDREASSON AFFAIR - The Documented Investigation of a Women's Abduction Aboard a UFO - 1979, Ann DRUFFEL, D. Scott ROGO,THE TUJUNGA CANYON CONTACTS - 1980, Budd HOPKINS,MISSING TIME - 1981

Journal of Scientific Exploration
A Publication of the Society for Scientific Exploration
Volume 2 Number 1 1988
Society for Scientific Exploration

Editor: Bernhard M. HAISCH

Name: Gauquelin, Michel

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

Henry H. BAUER	Commonalities in Arguments Over Anomalies	1-11
	Abstract: There are a number of features that seem to be common to controversies about claimed anomalies. Foremost perhaps is the very fact of controversy. Typically, the anomaly runs counter to the expectations of established orthodoxy, and there is often a populist tone to the argument. Questions concerning the demarcation of science from pseudoscience and of epistemology in general are typically raised. It becomes important to distinguish between the pros and cons of a particular claim and what is said by the disputants; an examination of the ways in which belief and disbelief are distributed among various groups can be useful in clarifying the issues. It is also vital that one distinguish between the occurrence and the reporting of events. As with interdisciplinary work, it is problematic to establish what parts of existing knowledge might be relevant; and anomalies bring to attention large and sometimes unsuspected areas of ignorance. There are pitfalls in assuming that anomalies with superficial similarities have any functional or necessary relation to one another. The manner in which anomalies are perceived is clearly influenced by contemporary science and by contemporary societal beliefs. For many reasons that go far beyond the possible reality of any given anomalous claim, then, the study of anomalies can be interesting and enlightening.

Jacques VALLÉE	Remote Viewing and Computer Communications-An Experiment	13-27
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 4 Number 2 /1990 - Comments on Remote Viewing and Computer Communications-An Experiment
	Abstract: A series of remote viewing experiments were run with 12 partic- ipants who communicated through a computer conferencing network. These participants, who were located in various regions of the United States and Canada, used portable terminals in their homes and offices to provide typed descriptions of 10 mineral samples. These samples were divided into an open series and a double-blind series. A panel of five judges was asked to match the remote viewing descriptions against the mineral samples by a percentage scoring system. The correct target sample was identified in 8 out of 33 cases: this represents more than double the pure chance expectation. Two experienced users provided 20 transcripts for which the probability of achieving the observed distribution of the percentage score by chance was 0.04. These results confirm earlier reports of successful remote viewing exper- iments while extending them to cases in which participants were thousands of miles away from each other and in which the targets were mineral samples of potential economic significance, with control of communica- tions provided by a computer network.

Michel GAUQUELIN	Is There a Mars Effect?	29-51
	Abstract: The so-called "Mars Effect" is discussed in a larger context. The phenomenon refers to a significant tendency for champion athletes to have been born at the time of either the rise or the upper culmination of the planet Mars. The populations and samples, methodology and its develop ment are described along with earlier and more recent findings. Control studies and replications by others are reported in some detail. Particular attention is paid to certain basic and procedural criticisms and the problem of bias or artifacts. The current scientific status of the issue is reviewed in light of sevenl kinds of empirical evidence that has accumulated over the past three decades. The question raised in the title of the paper is answered in the affirmative.

Suitbert ERTEL	Raising the Hurdle for the Athletes Mars Effect:Association Co-Varies With Eminence	53-82
	Abstract: By 1955, Michel Gauquelin had begun to publicize the claim that famous athletes are born with frequencies far beyond chance at times when Mars is rising over the Earth's horizon ("key sector I") or when the planet crosses the meridian ("key sector 11"). Critics did not succeed in refuting this claim empirically: The "Mars effect" survived three such at- tempts. It was largely doubts over the impeccability of M. and F. Gauque- lin's data base, however, which kept researchers from pursuing the problem further. The present study incorporates the entire repertoire of birth data of athletes available to date (N = 4391). The objective is to test the alleged planetary correlation as a function of degree of sportive eminence, the latter being determined by citation counts. It is contended that this procedure is superior to Gauquelin's own; and that the predicted eminence function could hardly be expected to materialize in case his former results were due to biased data treatment. Findings corroborate the eminence prediction: The proportion of athletes born at Mars key sector hours increases from the lowest to the highest of five ranks of sporting eminence; the trend is highly significant (p < .005) by several criteria. It is concluded that Gauquelin's hypothesis, after having passed this crucial examination, deserves the most thorough attention.

	`Correspondence`
Richard F. HAINES	Expanding Ball of Light (EBL) Phenomenon	83-85
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 4 Number 1 /1990 - Comments on "Expanding Ball of Light (EBL) Phenomenon"(Haines, 1988)

	`Book Review`
Henry H. BAUER	Origins-A Skeptic's Guide to the Creation of Lie on Earth, by Robert Shapiro	87-89

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