Lynne McTaggart, The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe

This book is for everyone, but especially those who are open and curious enough to wonder what next in our scientific and human evolution and way of thinking and perceiving the world we live in. It was concise and factual but included the human element from the people she was reporting about. The author speculates in the end on the context of this new scientific understanding and how it may relate for example to our understanding on how acupuncture and homeopathy might work, and she does so based on the facts that some of this research has uncovered, but she does not at all do so in a conclusive or indoctrinating manner. As any good reporter would, she leaves space enough for anyone to make their own conclusions about the information she has compiled.

Terry Kelly's review is intended to prejudice without providing anything more than an opinion. This book has an ample Bibliography, citing its sources, and is just what it says it is: science that is that is unpopular with an established atheistic scientific attitude intent on protecting itself and its metaphysics against change. As McTaggart mentions in her interesting Prologue "These ideas were the stuff of treason. In many cases, these scientists have had to fight a rearguard action against an entrenched and hostile establishment. Their investigations have gone on for thirty years, largely unacknowledged or suppressed, but not because of the quality of the work. The scientists, all from credible top-ranking institutions - Princeton, Stanford, and top institutions in Germany and France - have produced impeccable experimentation. Nevertheless, their experiments have attacked a number of tenets held to be sacred and at the very heart of modern science.... There have been many attempts to discredit the new ideas elaborated in this book by scientists with good credentials and testing methods, but thus far, no one has been successful.."

You risk nothing by offering unsupported opinions and and unfounded charges that simply smear with an old brush what you don't want to be true or anyone to hear. Let the reader read for their self, and decide. Closed minds do not discover reality. As Louis be Broglie, the Noble Laureate in Physics put it: "History shows very clearly that the advances of science have always been frustrated by the tyrannical influences of certain preconceived notions which were turned into unassailable dogmas. For that reason alone every serious scientist should periodically make a profound re-examination of his basic principles." This book helps one make a profound re-examination of basic principles.

Lynne McTaggart, The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe is bad science with lots of big words and nebulous concepts which might look impressive to an uncritical reader. But it is not actually scientific in approach. It will probably be read and considered deep and meaningful by "well educated " and literate people who lack a critical and curious perspective.