E-mail from Michael Roll to Adrian Berry (June 4, 2014): Astronomy at The Telegraph

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"It does not take a mathematical genius to come to the conclusion that the force of gravity, that keeps the oceans from flying off into space, and the suns in a galaxy from doing the same thing, is in fact the force that is coming from the spiritual part of the universe."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Polly Toynbee (May 3, 2014): These Religious Nuts are Determined to get us in a Third World War

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Only Nigel Farage has had the guts to warn that it is the EU that is causing all the hatred in the Ukraine."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Ron Pearson (December 7, 2013): Trying to Bring the Church With Us

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Sorry Ron, the Church has moved much further away from Jesus in the last few years, not closer."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to the Western Daily Press (October 30, 2013): Censored Historical Facts and Scientific Discoveries

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"All the hard work has already been done but suppressed. All we have to do is just point people in the direction of two philosophical giants, Thomas Paine and Arthur Findlay, the most valuable Scotsman ever."
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Open Letter from Michael Roll to Professor John Poynton (November 28, 2005): A Fair Balance in SPR Publications

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Surely in a situation as divided as this, rules should be made that all editors must be duty bound to always balance these two conflicting opinions, especially as I have proved to you that scientists within The Royal Society are relying on their colleagues within the SPR to keep a sharp look out for any important discoveries in what Sir Oliver Lodge called "Psychic Science"?"
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Fellow Atheists (August 29, 2002): Religion - The Great Hoax on the Human Race

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Please join the survivalists in their fight against the great religious hoax on the human race. This way we can stop the born-again Christians in the White House from plunging us all into the Third World War."
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E-mail from Professor Peter Wadhams to an Inquirer (February 11, 2002): Ignoring Positive Evidence for "Psi"

In his e-mail, Prof. Wadhams writes:
"The cumulative evidence for the existence of psi, for instance, is absolutely overwhelming, both from carefully framed statistical experiments designed to detect tiny effect sizes and from case studies of more spectacular spontaneous cases. (...) Yet psi today scarcely seems to enter the consciousness of most scientists."
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E-mail from Professor Peter Wadhams to Michael Roll (May 7, 2004): Sir William Crookes

In his e-mail, Professor Peter Wadhams writes:
"It is a psychological phenomenon. Deep down they know that great scientists who engage in this kind of work and get positive results should be believed and should cause this subject to become a central theme of the world's scientific effort. But they dare not accept this thought. So to square their consciences and make the dissonance less extreme they have to invent reasons to pretend that the great scientist is not actually as great as he seems, that he's somehow naive or bonkers or that his conventional discoveries weren't as important as they at first appear."
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