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- From: lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay)
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- Subject: Re: New Physics, Healing, Paranormal
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 19:48:55 GMT
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- petitc@nuge105.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit) writes:
- >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.
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- That would be interesting IF IT WERE TRUE. But the last I heard, it
- just isn't true.
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- Since you are the person making the amazing claim, it's up to you to
- produce the amazing facts. Find a reference, please.
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- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Computer Science
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