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Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile

Once upon a time, a Mormon scientist worked at the Pentagon. They nicknamed him Dr. Weird Science. He was later stationed in Japan for the US Air Force, where he investigated and invested in the most cutting edge scientific research in Asia. He listened to a recent episode of Infants on Thrones. He has a thing or two to say about the line between science and woo. He is Dave Sonntag, and today he and Chelsea Shields join Glenn to talk a little more about the Mormon (and post-Mormon) cultural attraction towards woo.

Link Bomb for nearly every reference we dropped:

Anne Jacobsen, Phenomena: https://www.amazon.com/Phenomena-Governments-Investigations-Extrasensory-Psychokinesis/dp/0316349364

Men Who Stare at Goats (IMDB): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234548/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

CIA Reading Room Stargate: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/stargate

Google Quantum Biology Workshop: https://aoardlifesci.wordpress.com

Johnjoe McFadden, Quantum Evolution: https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Evolution-Weirdest-Paperback-2002-05-17

Not mentioned, more recent: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Edge-Quantum-McFadden-2015-07-28/dp/B01LP8VESM/

Herb Froehlich: https://publishing.aip.org/publishing/journal-highlights/quantum-coherent-state-observed-biological-protein-first-time, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Fr%C3%B6hlich

Stuart Hameroff, Anirban, and microtubules.
http://discovermagazine.com/bonus/quantum

Penrose, Emperor’s New Mind:
https://www.amazon.com/Emperors-New-Mind-Concerning-Computers/dp/0198784929

Penrose Institute: https://penroseinstitute.com/

Stuart Hameroff: Science of Consciousness Conference: http://consciousness.arizona.edu

Lieberman, Social: https://www.amazon.com/Matthew-D-Lieberman-Social-Hardcover/dp/B07DFDL998

Bob Rees, Heartmath Institute, coherent group changes: https://www.heartmath.org/research/featured-research/

Irwin Schroedinger, What Is Life: http://www.whatislife.ie/downloads/What-is-Life.pdf

Rosalind Franklin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin

Grid Cells: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_cell

Kirschvink and Radiobio: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/10/20/448449