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- From: petitc@nuge105.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit)
- Subject: Re: New Physics, Healing, Paranormal
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:07:04 GMT
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- det@sw.stratus.com (David Toland) writes:
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- >More's the pity that this is "no joke". I'm afraid that there *is* a decline
- >in the quality of education in at least American universities, but it would
- >be far worse if they were to teach classes in New Age pseudoscience, unless
- >it were in debunking it with critical analysis. What we need is a more
- >solid grounding in foundation subjects, beginning in primary and secondary
- >schools, with higher graduating standards in oral and written communication,
- >literature, critical analysis, the physical sciences, and mathematics.
-
- Well, I do agree that the quality of education has declined, but saying that
- 'New Age' ideas are all worthless is total crap. While some of the ideas are
- ridiculous, there is supposedly (or so I've heard) scientific proof that some
- forms of ESP do in fact exist. I think the head of Stanford's Engineering
- dept. did some studies which showed that, by trying to influence certain
- statistically valid actions (e.g. 100,000 flips of a coin, in one second, by a
- computer), the subjects did have a small but measurable influence.
-
- Now, I want to see those tests done myself, but I don't have the resources.
- Has anyone else heard of these experiments?
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