Re: CSICOP: Film Review - What the #$*! Do They Know?

From: Andy Resnick (axr67_at_op.cwru.edu)
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:21:03 -0500

Sam Wormley wrote:

> Film Review - What the #$*! Do They Know?
> http://www.csicop.org/si/2004-09/review.html

<snip>

> The
> breakdown of strict reductionism has become common knowledge among
> scientists, and yet Amit Goswami, John Hagelin, and Fred Alan Wolf, to
> mention just three from the film, have not caught up with this way of
> thinking about science. They prefer to remain within the old-fashioned
> paradigm that supposes that everything is indeed nothing but physics.
> This is not entirely surprising, given that each of them earns money
> writing books about popular physics laced with allusions to Eastern
> mysticism and the "really big questions in life." But now their
> knowledge of quantum mechanics is even allowing them to become movie
> stars and, better still, in a movie that is changing people's lives!
>
I didn't see this movie, mostly because I suspected much of what is
discussed in the review. Does anyone know if it was mentioned that John
Hagelin has also run for President of the U.S. as the leader of the
Natural Law Party? 

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Andrew Resnick, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
CWRU School of Medicine
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