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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
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Subject: Re: Forgotten Entities: Do You Remember Any?
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Date: 31 Oct 90 04:29:11 GMT
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Some controversial tools which purport to measure a real thing are
Rorschach and IQ tests.  Not recognized as disproven, yet.

I remember reading a book which was considered an important reference
on bacteriology back in the 1940's, which speculated that some unexplained
growth effects might be caused by unknown rays emitted by the bacteria.