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(1) Mention mind reading, ghosts, premonitions, the bending of spoons through thought or other supposed mysteries of the paranormal, and most scientists will say there are no such things. (2) Polls show that about half of Americans believe in paranormal phenomena. “For some reason, a lot of people want it to be so,” said Dr. Robert L. Park, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland and the author of “Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud.” “If you can do things with your mind, then the universe is paying attention to you, and that’s important to a lot of people.” (3) The few scientists working on normal research, often on their own dime, feel they are following the rules of science yet being excluded from the playing field. （1）提到看透他人心思、鬼魂、预感、意念弯勺或其他所谓的超自然神秘现象，大多数科学家都会说，根本不存在此类事情。 （2）民意调查表明，约有一半的美国人相信超自然现象。马里兰大学物理学教授、《巫毒科学的兴起：由愚昧迈向欺诈之路》一书的作者罗伯特·L帕克博士说：“出于某种原因，许多人希望真的存在超自然现象。如果你能用心灵来做事，那么整个宇宙都在关注你，而这对许多人来说非常重要。” （3）少数通常是自费从事超自然现象研究的科学家觉得，他们遵循了科学的规则来进行研究，但这些规则仍然被排除在科学界之外。 (4) “There’s really strong pressure not to allow these things to be talked about a positive way,” said Dr. Brian D. Josephson, a processor of physics at Cambridge University who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics for a fundamental discovery in superconductivity, and now heads the Mind-Matter Unification Project at Cambridge. （4）剑桥大学物理学教授、因在超导性研究方面有重大发现而分享1973年诺贝尔物理学奖的布赖恩·D.约瑟夫森博士说:“确实存在着强大的压力，不允许正面谈论这些事情。”约瑟夫森博士目前是剑桥大学“心物合一项目”的负责人。 (5) One experiment Dr. Josephson finds intriguing is the Global Consciousness Project, which records the output from devices that generate random numbers based on electrical noise. Dr. Roger D. Nelson, the project’s director, said that for unknown reasons the distribution of random numbers changes noticeably during crises, with a noticeable shift on Sept. 11, 2001. （5）约瑟夫森博士感到十分有趣的一个实验是“全球知觉项目”，它记录了基于电子噪音而产生随机数字的设备所输出的结果。该项目负责人罗杰·D.纳尔逊博士说，由于不明原因，随机数字的分布在危机期间变化明显，在2001年9·11事件发生时就有着一次显著的变化。 (6) The skeptics, however, say the data do not sway