高级英语6课件unit12part01

Bard continued: “They found two girls in plastic bags. We went
to the scene. The girls weren’t identifiable. We identified the girls,
found an unmarked key in the pocket, went to the south Bronx,
life—the maximum under New York law (Gannett 1984).
Only a couple of news reports relating to the case referred to a
psychic. And although no name was given, it was not Ron Bard
“And how did you help them...?”
“The one that stands in my mind most;” Bard replied, “was two
girls found in plastic bags in Harrison, New York. Anybody can
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guests—who included an alien abductee2 and her hypnotherapist,
a UFO conspiracy theorist3, and a pair of ghost hunters4 —there
This certainly sounded like an amazing case of psychic power.
Unfortunately, an examination of news stories relating to the case
(Gannett 1984) and the testimony of the Harrison police chief
were two “psychics5,” one of whom claimed to assist police
departments. He was Ron Bard from southern New York State.
Walberg asked, “Ron, how did you discover this ability?”
had died from suffocation. An item found in one of the plastic
bags—which police would not identify at the time—led
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teenagers”— each in a green trash bag tied at the top with
rope—had been discovered near Harrison High School. “One of
agent, and the teenage girl because she had said something that
offended him. Each of the three killers was convicted and
sentenced to two consecutive sentences of twenty-five years to
(Dorio 1996a, 1996b) paint quite a different picture. The first
newspaper account was March 9, 1984. It reported that “the
bound, frozen bodies of two unidentified women, possibly
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Eventually, after a five-month investigation of the case, in the
aftermath of a drug raid in Yonkers, police were able to arrest
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Reading: Science vs. Pseudo-science Task 1 Pre-reading questions
1. Do you believe in Clairvoyance, Fengshui, Crystal Ball Reading, Palm Reading, Fortune Telling, Spirit Healing, or Distance Healing? Why?
Sleuthing a Psychic Sleuth1 By Joe Nickell
On February 7, 1996, I appeared on the Mark Walberg Show, a television program produced in New York City. Among other
but his mother (Dorio 1996a). “She” was described in the news
In just over a month, police circulars bearing descriptions and
morgue photos of the victims, together with articles in a Spanish-
language newspaper, had brought forth the parents of one young
police were having in learning the identities of the two victims,
neither of whom was carrying identification. The victims had been
fully clothed, and there was no evidence of sexual abuse. They
Unit 12 Subject 4 Science and Technology
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Unit 12 Contents of this unit
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2. What is the difference between science, belief and superstition?
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Joe Nickell is Senior Research Fellow of the International Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. He made many investigations into paranormal claims. This story examines a case of clairvoyance, a paranormal ability, i.e. the ability outside the range of normal human being’s, as claimed by some people, to perceive or know the objects or things that are not present.
three men for the murders. Eyewitnesses named those
responsible and told how one man had ordered the older of the
two females killed because he thought she was an undercover
The key in Miss Rivera’s possession fit the door to her apartment.
Before that, according to an April 15 newspaper account, police
thought the key might have belonged to the murderer.
call the Chief of Harrison Police Department and find this out for
fact,” he challenged.
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I resolved to do just that.
Bard replied, “Well, it’s been in my family for quite a few
generations. I’ve solved over 110 murder cases and returned 150
missing children in my career so far,” he boasted.
unlocked the door—there is a lot of putting the evidence together
inevitably—the key worked in the lock and that’s how we found
the murderer” (Bard 1996).
woman and the mother of another—each looking for a missing
child. They identified their respective daughters as Daisy Rivera,
20, and Iris Comacho, 15, both from the Bronx and both Hispanic.
the women was white, the other black,” the newspaper reported.
“Both had their hands tied behind their backs with twine, and
were curled up, almost in a fetal position.” A detective was
quoted as saying that the young women appeared to have been
dumped at the site after being killed—the cause of death not yet
having been determined. Subsequent reports told of the difficulty
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them to a particular area of the Bronx. The item was a key that
had been made in a store on Southern Boulevard, so the police
search was focused on that vicinity.