Spring Semester, 2000
All Public Lectures on Thursdays, 8:00 PM,
Room 102, Mills Godwin Jr. Life Sciences Building.
Science Colloquia on following Friday, 3:00 PM,
Room 200, Oceanography and Physics Building.
All lectures and symposia on the Old Dominion University
campus, Norfolk, VA:
BOB FRIEDHOFFER ,
Professional Magician and Author
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January 27
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Magic Tricks - Science Facts
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January 28
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The Deception of Perception
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WALLACE SAMPSON, MD,
Editor, Scientific Review
of Alternative Medicine
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February 3
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Alternative Medicine: Factors and Forces Behind an
Ideologically Correct Social Delusion
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February 4
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Errors, Misinterpretations, and Academic Legends:
Alternativism and the Scientific Literature
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ROBERT PARK, Ph.D.,
Professor of Physics, University of
Maryland, and Director of the Washington Office of
the American Physical Society
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February 10
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Placebos Have Side Effects
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February 11
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Perpetuum Mobile: Foolishness and Fraud in the Search
for Free Energy
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JOE NICKELL, Ph.D.,
Senior Research Fellow at the
Committe for the Scientific Investigation of the
Paranormal (CSICOP)
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February 24
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Investigating Strange Mysteries
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February 25
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Investigating Miracle Claims
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HOWARD VAN TILL, Ph.D.,
Professor Emeritus of Physics,
Calvin College
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March 16
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Scientific Creationism: Science, Pseudoscience, or
Folk-Science?
Room 104, Batten Arts and Letters
Building
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March 17
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The Legend of the Shrinking Sun: A Case Study
Comparing Professional Science and Scientific Creationism
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DAVE THOMAS,
President, New Mexicans for
Science and Reason (NMSR)
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April 13
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What Really Landed at Roswell?
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April 14
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The Bible Code - A Skeptical Investigation
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PHILLIP A. IANNA, Ph.D.,
Professor of Astronomy,
University of Virginia
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April 20
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Astrology ( Thursday lecture)
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