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| How Graphology Fools People, 20/8/2006 |
| Barry L. Beyerstein, Ph.D. The artificially inflated reputation enjoyed by handwriting analysis is largely due to the tendency to confuse the profession of graphologist with that of a questioned document examiner (QDE). As Dale Beyerstein has observed, nonsense often rides piggyback on sensible knowledge, and graphology, though it bears only the most superficial resemblance to scientific document examination, misappropriates the latter's well-deserved prestige . Both fields analyze handwriting, but that is where the similarity ends. Beyerstein B. The origins of graphology in sympathetic magic. In Beyerstein BL, Beyerstein DF, editors. The Write Stuff: Evaluations of Graphology—The Study of Handwriting Analysis. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1992, pp 163-200. Beyerstein B, Zhang J-P. By a man's calligraphy Ye shall know him: Handwriting analysis in China. In The Write Stuff, pp 30-41. Beyerstein B. Handwriting is brainwriting. So what? In The Write Stuff, pp 397-419. Beyerstein D. 1992. Graphology and the philosophy of science. In The Write Stuff, pp 121-162. Beyerstein B, Hadaway P. On avoiding folly. Journal of Drug Issues 20:689-700, 1990. Dr. Beyerstein, a member of the executive council of the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), is a biopsychologist at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. This article was slightly modified from his chapter on graphology in The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal, published in 1996 by Prometheus Books.
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| A Statement in Defense of Scientific Medicine from the Council for Scientific Medicine, 3/5/2006 |
| Associate Editors: Barry Beyerstein, PhD, Timothy Gorski, MD, Steven Novella, MD James Alcock, PhD, Toronto, Ontario Peter Barglow, MD, Davis, CA Barry Beyerstein, PhD, Burnaby, British Columbia Ray Hyman, PhD, Eugene, OR Loren Pankratz, PhD, Portland, OR Social and Judgmental Biases That Make Inert Treatments Seem to Work, by Barry L. Beyerstein, PhD Naturopathy, by Barry L. Beyerstein, PhD, and Susan Downie
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| How People Are Fooled by Ideomotor Action, 28/8/2005 |
| Another variation of this special dispensation was illustrated by the reaction of a dowser that Barry Beyerstein and I tested on an edition of the television program Scientific American Frontiers, hosted by Alan Alda. The dowser had agreed in advance to a double-blind test that he felt would prove his powers, but failed the test. Beyerstein B, Downie S. Naturopathy. Scientific Rev Alternative Med. 1998;2(1):20-28. Beyerstein B, Sampson W. Traditional medicine and pseudoscience in China: a report of the second CSICOP delegation. Part 1. Skeptical Inquirer. 1996;20(4):18-26. Sampson W, Beyerstein B. Traditional medicine and pseudoscience in China: a report of the second CSICOP delegation. Part 2. Skeptical Inquirer. 1996;20(5):27-34.
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| EMDR Treatment: Less Than Meets the Eye?, 11/9/2007 |
| L. Beyerstein (1990) has noted. Because these interventions often hold out the hope of alleviating long-standing and previously intractable problems with a minimum of time and effort, they are understandably appealing to both victims of psychological disorders and their would-be healers. Beyerstein, B. L. 1990. Brainscams: Neuromythologies of the New Age. International Journal of Mental Health, 19:27-36.
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| "Alternative Medicine" and the Psychology of Belief, 14/1/2006 |
| Beyerstein BL. Alternative medicine. Where's the evidence? Canadian Journal of Public Health 88:149-150, 1997. Beyerstein B.
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| Why Bogus Therapies Often Seem to Work, 14/11/2004 |
| Barry L. Beyerstein, Ph.D. Dr. Beyerstein, a member of the executive council of the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), is a biopsychologist at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. A more detailed discussion of this topic is one of six superb articles on "alternative medicine" in the Sept/Oct 1997 issue of CSICOP's Skeptical Inquirer magazine, which costs $7.50. An introductory (six-issue) subscription at the special Internet price of $16.95 can be obtained by calling (800) 634-1610.
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| Spontaneous Remission and the Placebo Effect, 21/8/2003 |
| The psychologic aspects of many disorders also work to the healer's advantage. A large percentage of symptoms either have a psychologic component or do not arise from organic disease. Hence, treatment offering some lessening of tension can often help. A sympathetic ear or reassurance that no serious disease is involved may prove therapeutic by itself. Psychologist Barry Beyerstein, Ph.D., has observed: Beyerstein BL. Testing claims of therapeutic efficacy. Rational Enquirer 7(4):1-2, 8, 1995.
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| Be Wary of Acupuncture, Qigong, and "Chinese Medicine", 31/12/2007 |
| Beyerstein BL, Sampson W. Traditional Medicine and Pseudoscience in China: A Report of the Second CSICOP Delegation (Part 1). Skeptical Inquirer 20(4):18-26, 1996.
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| Stay Away from Adrenal Cortical Extract (ACE), 9/8/2006 |
| Much is written about these human traits, maybe too much to describe usefully here. So we recommend the reading of several books and critical research papers. Try How We Know What Isn't So by Thomas Gilovich, The Psychology of Anomalous Experience by Graham Reed, How to Think about Weird Things by Theodore Schick Jr. and Lewis Vaughn, any number of papers on belief perseverance by Lee Ross and others, Cults in Our Midst by Margaret Singer, The Psychology of Transcendence by Andrew Neher, Deception and Self-Deception by Richard Wiseman, "Memory" and "Eyewitness Testimony" by Elizabeth Loftus, and chapters by James Alcock and Barry Beyerstein in The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal. Throw in a few by Martin Gardner and James Randi for entertaining explorations of other oddities such as faith healers.
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| Naturopathy: A Skeptical Look, 30/6/2006 |
| Beyerstein BL, Downie S. Naturopathy. Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine 2(1):20-28, 1998.
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| Questionable "Self-Help" Products, 14/11/2004 |
| Beyerstein BL. Brainscams: Neuromythologies of the New Age.
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| Testimony Opposing Naturopathic Licensure in Massachusetts, 21/8/2003 |
| Beyerstein BL Downey S. Naturopathy. In: Sampson W, Vaughn L, eds. Science Meets Alternative Medicine: What the Evidence Says about Unconventional Treatments. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books; 2000, pp141-163
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