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- From: lippard@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard)
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- Subject: Re: New Physics, Healing, Paranormal
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:22:00 GMT
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- In article <C1H8Dr.7r3.2@cs.cmu.edu>, lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes...
- >
- >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.
- >
- >
- >That would be interesting IF IT WERE TRUE. But the last I heard, it
- >just isn't true.
- >
- >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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- Princeton, not Stanford. There are lots of references, including many
- Technical Notes published by the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research
- center. Roger Nelson of PEAR has previously sent out a listing of
- available reports to interested parties; I have one or two somewhere.
-
- Jim Lippard Lippard@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
- Dept. of Philosophy Lippard@ARIZVMS.BITNET
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