Ertel vs Nienhuys

The exchange of arguments between Suitbert Ertel and Jan Willem Nienhuys is the last episode of the "mars effect" polemic.
This page dresses a (still incomplete) list of this exchange.
Abbreviations :
  • JSE : Journal of Scientific Exploration
  • SI : Skeptical Inquier
Date Author Title Extracts, comments
1993 Nienhuys
Comments on Puzzling Eminence Effects
JSE Vol. 7 , No. 2, pp. 155-1 59, 1993
1993 Nienhuys
Dutch Investigations of the Gauquelin Mars Effect
JSE, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 271-281, 1993
1993 Ertel
Comments on Dutch Investigations of the Gauquelin Mars Effect
JSE, Vol. 7 , No. 3, pp. 283-292, 1993
1996 Ertel
How to Suppress the Gauquelin Mars Effect? Strategies of Concerned Committies
Correlation 15-1, Northern Summer 1996
The Existence of planetary effects, however, exemplified by MARS and sports champions, is denied by skeptic circles. The grounds for this point of view are traced to biased investigations: The skeptics tend
to work out insufficient designs,
to collect unfavourable dara,
to prevent planetary effects from emerging,
to ignore positive results if they show up,
or to obliterate them by reinterpretation
and to defame authors whose results confirm planetary effects while providing evidence for the skeptics' unfairness.
The conclusion is that an increasing number of unprejudiced scientists is required who are ready to acknowledge the existing positive evidence while augmenting it by replications.
1996 Ertel
Response to CFEPP
1997 Ertel
Irving
Biased Data Selection in Mars Effect Research
JSE Vol. 11 , No. 1, pp. 1-18, 1997
1997 Kurtz
Nienhuys
Sandhu
Is the “Mars Effect” Genuine?
JSE Vol. 11 , No. 1, pp. 19-39, 1997
1997 Nienhuys
The Mars Effect in Retrospect
SI 21(6), November/December 1997, p. 24-29
1998 Ertel
ls There No Mars Effect ?
Correlation 17(2), Northern Winter 1998/99
2000 Ertel
The Mars Effect Is Genuine: On Kurtz, Nienhuys, and Sandhu’s Missing the Evidence
JSE Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 421–430, 2000