Evidently the logic is this: debunk the lunatic fringe of an anomalistic field and you've debunked the entire field?. From Wordnik.com. [Posthuman Blues] Reference
Nor are the parapsychology field and a related field, anomalistic psychology, eager to associate themselves with the current craze. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted: The debate about whether ghosts exist will never be settled, but for paranormal investigator John Warfield, it's all about the search for proof] Reference
And like most myths, there are a few anomalistic instances of genuine academic shortcomings among college athletes that perpetuate the image. From Wordnik.com. [Myles Brand: The "Dumb Jock" Myth is Dumb] Reference
In the cases of parapsychology AND anomalistic psychology (the skeptical study of these supposedly paranormal phenomena) skeptics and proponents of these claims have directly interacted with the subjects. From Wordnik.com. [Telekinesis and Quantum Field Theory] Reference
This perspective seems to share most of the flaws and none of the virtues of most current programmatic "debunking" of any and all anomalistic and occult subjects from a supposedly "scientific" perspective. From Wordnik.com. [Posthuman Blues] Reference
I could be accused of bias, since I once met Mr. VanderMeer in a dark alley in a forgotten city, but this novel has received accolades from far and wide, so I know my admiration and enjoyment of it are not anomalistic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
Unlike the BBC it is not state-sponsored and receives no licence fee; it is not bound to objectivity by a Charter that in return for a pledge of objectivity gives it its increasingly anomalistic and untenably privileged position (in this era of multi-channel broadcasting) of being featherbedded by what is in effect a poll tax on every household in Britain with a television set. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
It then broke that time down into days, centuries, seconds, anomalistic, and. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] Reference
The last thing I was hoping you might comment on is just the field of anomalistic psychology in general. From Wordnik.com. [Skeptiko - Science at the Tipping Point] Reference
Even if you think you will hate it, you cannot fail to be drawn into this exhibition of anomalistic human ability. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Astronomy, pertaining to anomaly. anomalistic month, interval between two perigees of moon. anomalistic year, interval between two perihelion passages of Earth. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
The "anomalistic month" is the time occupied by the moon in travelling from its perigee, that is its point of nearest approach to the earth, round to its perigee again. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture] Reference
He had not so much the air of belonging there, as of belonging anywhere -- one of those anomalistic American citizens of the world who go abroad and make intimates of princes. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
If we take the mean of these three periods, that is to say 840,057 days, as being the cycle, it brings into harmony the day, the anomalistic month, the ordinary month, and the solar year. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture] Reference
They were not like Rolfe's eyes, insinuating, possessive; they had the anomalistic quality, of being at once personal and impersonal, friendly, alight, evoking curiosity yet compelling trust. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
Those transactions were given their size and their nature were relative and they were not more anomalistic inside of our database business and I don't count on those kinds of things to recur. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
This is a kind of defensive position where whenever evidence comes up, anomalistic psychology is wielded on as the way of trying to dismiss it as errors of judgment, flawed perception, etc., etc. From Wordnik.com. [Skeptiko - Science at the Tipping Point] Reference
I mean, what the anomalistic psychology is essentially an attempt to explain or explain away seemingly anomalistic experiences and they concentrate the anomalistic psychologists on the fallibility of human judgment. From Wordnik.com. [Skeptiko - Science at the Tipping Point] Reference
We entered discussion about anomalistic psychology and about parapsychology, and particularly about how collaboration between - to use simple terms - skeptics and believers, how that takes place and some of the pitfalls of it. From Wordnik.com. [Skeptiko - Science at the Tipping Point] Reference
But the period in which the moon travels from her perigee round to perigee again is 27 days, 13 hours, 18 minutes, 37 seconds, and there are in 2,300 solar years almost exactly 30,487 such periods or anomalistic months, which amount to 840,057 days, 2 hours. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture] Reference
It seems that all the anomalistic psychology is kind of pointed in one direction rather than you know, there's a whole other area of inquiry that has to do with anomalistic psychology and there doesn't seem like anyone's ever saying, "What are the limits to this?". From Wordnik.com. [Skeptiko - Science at the Tipping Point] Reference
Kugler, S.J., of the tabulated data employed in computing the moon's place, disclosed the striking fact that the four lunar periods -- the synodic, sidereal, anomalistic, and draconitic months -- were substantially adopted by Hipparchus from his Chaldean predecessors. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
Here indeed were a subject for some modern master, a chance to picture for generations to come an aspect of a mighty age, an age that may some day be deemed but a grotesque and anomalistic survival of a more ancient logic; a gargoyle carved out of chaos, that bears on its features a resemblance to the past and the future. From Wordnik.com. [The Inside of the Cup — Complete] Reference
So, either the forced liquidation and deleveraging of the moment is anomalistic enough that it is not allowing the financial markets to more properly discount forward economic reality to come in current prices, or this very deleveraging process itself will further contribute to negative real world economic outcomes ahead and the markets are suggesting as much. From Wordnik.com. [Safehaven] Reference
UFOlogists begin with the positive hypothesis that ETIs exist and have visited us, then employ questionable research techniques to support that belief, such as hypnotic regression (revelations of abduction experiences), anecdotal reasoning (countless stories of UFO sightings), conspiratorial thinking (governmental cover-ups of alien encounters), low-quality evidence (blurry photographs and grainy videos), and anomalistic thinking (atmosphere anomalies and visual misperceptions by eyewitnesses). From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
"anomalistic" months. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture] Reference
Month, 293-304 anomalistic, 342. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture] Reference
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