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Changed the page from a stub to an article. It needs some better formating. Ray Tomes 09:00, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
For Reference 8, the wayback link is wrong. It should be [1].
Page 168 of the cited book contains the following text (I quote):
In 1960 I made a thorough investigation of Tchijevsky's work, using sunspot data that were not available to Tchijevsky forty years earlier. I discovered that when the years of maximum sunspot activity were compared with the values of Tchijevsky's Index of Mass Human Excitability, the highs of the sunspot cycles followed the highs of his Index by an average of about one year.
This time lag often occurs when earthly cycles are compared with sunspots. In general, regardless of period, the sunspot cycles turn after the corresponding earthly cycles they are supposed to create. And you cannot have the cause follow the effect!
Can it be that something is causing both the cycles on the sun and the cycles here on earth-but that the sun takes longer to respond?
So the data suggests human strife causes sun storms.
If your mind is open to psychic phenomena, you'll be interested to know that Edgar Cayce said the following [2] (long before the 1960 research mentioned above):
Then, what are the sun spots? A natural consequence of that turmoil which the sons of God in the earth reflect upon same. Thus they oft bring confusion to those who become aware of same. 5757-1
The following article on the sun/earth connection includes a different Cayce quote:
https://www.heartmath.org/gci-commentaries/interconnection-between-the-sun-and-the-earth/
174.56.108.198 (talk) 03:48, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
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This article muddles together two very different ideas, one that solar fluctuations affect earth climate, and the other - neo-astrology for lack of a better term - that solar fluctuations are somehow responsible for human behavior. The latter is fringe pseudo-science, and there is no indication that Chizhevsky contributed anything of any significance whatsoever to the former. What's more, citations from places like PNAS are given to imply that he has much broader support in the scientific community than he actually has.
This list is a riot: "space biology, space medicine, cosmic sociology, aerobiology, cosmobiology, geobiology, biometerology and cosmogony" - any scientist looking at that list of non-existent scientific disciplines would laugh his or her ass off. I don't think this article would have the slightest chance of surviving an "AfD" challenge in its current state, as its subject is not notable as anything other than the sort "I'm the world's expert in the science I made up in my own basement" kind of crank. Goodwinsands (talk) 13:47, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Some excellent references to work from in improving the article. Careful research to make sure they are WP:RS needed:
Alexander Tchijevsky in google scholar; Alexander Tchijevsky in books google; Alexander Chizhevsky at books.google. Alexander Chizhevsky at google scholar. Which makes me think we should see which name evokes best references in English and perhaps change it to that. CarolMooreDC (talk) 05:23, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Far from muddle, I believe this page is part of a hoax, for the same reasons outlined above. The links are all unverifiable or easily fabricated and un authoritative. The text is at times, as noted above, humorous. The page is maintained by a new contributor. Since this hoax has several elements, I recommend keeping the page up and indicTing it is part of a hoax, rather than deletion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.215.4.8 (talk) 02:19, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Taking out the more obviously ridiculous aspects, and adding links to explanations of the Russian language and the name of an encyclopedia hardly make this more credible. In fact, it makes it more suspect. Other than a reference to a print edition of an aging edition of a foreign language encyclopedia with no presence online in any language, there is not one credible link here. This article is at best pseudoscientific muck by well meaning new age fans. It is at worst a hoax with an intention to mislead.
Take, for example, the disingenuous links to Wheeler and Dewey. These men never actually commented or were even aware of this Russian's work.
Or take one of the most credible links, to an actual verifiable Web site. The same academic talks about ESP and the influence of Mars on human society. He offers no peer reviewed work, just rants.
Due to rumors and blog posts on the Net, I think this guy deserves an entry -- but it should make clear he is a fringe figure whose work is being appropriated using underhanded, non transparent means like untraceable, inappropriate or bogus references to butress a fringe pseudo scientific theory that human life can be charted in an astrological kind of way. The source of this hoax or fuzzy thinking appears to be here: http://cyclesresearchinstitute.wordpress.com/advisers/
It is easy to imagine some of these stock market formula sellers want to use simplify or mischaracterize or appropriate scientific work that has goe before to legitimize their for-sale systems for beating the stock market. I imagine this is why there is so much resistance to the simple request for one legitimate scientific source in this entire article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.247.10.84 (talk) 16:26, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
If no credible sources can be displayed -- and after years of back and forth none have been -- this should be exposed fir the fringe pseudoscience it is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.247.10.84 (talk) 15:50, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
hoaxes and mistakes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.228.193.11 (talk) 20:30, 25 September 2013 (UTC)