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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Psychic Warfare - an informed opinion
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Date: Mon, 16-Jan-84 01:02:30 EST
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Well, psychic phenomena may be possible, but the history of discussion of
psychic phenomena is riddled with fradulent claims and with rather gassy
speculation on little hard evidence.  If there are serious and rigorous
studies of psi being done, their signal gets drowned out by the noise of
the Uri Gellers and the people joyfully telling us how quantum mechanics
tells us all how we can read minds, travel in time, and live forever.
As such, I can understand the people who get disgusted whenever any mention
of psychic powers is made; given that more than 90% of such mention (in
general; I'm not referring to mention here on the net one way or the other) is
crud, I'm not inclined to be too harsh on those who dismiss it out of hand
simply because the likelihood of something useful coming out of such studies
is worth less to them than the time and energy it would take to investigate
psychic powers.  Not all heterodox opinions and reported unusual happenings
are worth investigating; life is short and people have other things to do
as well.

	Guy Harris
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