The Mythic Significance of Constellations

or, “Why Isn’t There A Science of X?”

or, “Alchemy is to Chemistry as Astrology is to…?”

“If people don’t believe us after all the results we’ve produced, then they never will.”

“It’s time for a new era, for someone to figure out what the implications of our results are for human culture, for future study, and — if the findings are correct — what they say about our basic scientific attitude.”

– Robert G. Jahn

“We have been very open with our data. But how do you get peer review when you don’t have peers?”

– Brenda Dunne

“The culture of science, at its purest, is one of freedom in which any idea can be tested regardless of how far-fetched it might seem.”

– Benedict Carey, writing on the PEAR Lab for The New York Times

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