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[edit] Why the redirect?

Why is this article a redirect? –– Constafrequent ^{(talk page)} 13:15, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Terribly weak article

I hate to make my first comment negative, but this article amounts to little more that pseudoscience and should be removed. To mark it only for cleanup misses the point in my opinion.

The author states:

"Biologists, competent also in physics, maintain that these observations can be explained by existence of so called quantum entanglements.

"It seems probable that people acting synchronously and together during mass meetings, like religious invocations or ideologically rationalized manifestations and war battles become entangled by this kind of physical mechanisms."

There is nothing I am aware of in quantum physics theory to support such a supposition, certainly nothing that attributes a "probability" that quantum interference explains the behavior of organisms in any way. Recommend, for starters, citations for this comment, although truthfully this would be considered mere speculation by nearly all physicists. Biologists with "competence" of quantum theory are not credible sources as far as I'm aware. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tlcastle (talk • contribs) 21:24, 5 December 2006 (UTC).

It starts fairly well but the rest is just nonsense. This is better as an article about the sociological term coined by Durkheim - the rest just isn't right, and none of the links actually point to relevant, reliable research. There also seems to be a confusion with Jungian "collective unconscious". I'm going to work on this - which will involve a major deletion of the non-sensical text. Madmedea 18:47, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Actually, just looking in my dictionary of sociology this article is confusing social facts with the "collective conscience" and "collective consciousness". So I'm going to fix that as well. Madmedea 19:25, 3 February 2007 (UTC)