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From: richard@sequent.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Psychic warfare?
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Date: Sat, 14-Jan-84 03:50:03 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 14 03:50:03 1984
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Unbelievable.  Anyone who believes in Psychic powers of any sort should
take a healthy dose of James Randi.  If you need myth-debunking, including
anything from Astrology and Creationism to Nostradamos and Spoon Bending,
the best publication is *The Skeptical Inquirer* published quarterly by
the Committee for the Scientific  Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.
For more information, write to:
			The Skeptical Inquirer
			Box 229 - Central Park Station
			Buffalo  NY  14215
		(As far as I know, they are not on the Net.)

Annual subscriptions (four issues) is $16.50.  Among the editorial staff:
Editorial Board: George Abell, James Alcock, Martin Gardner, Ray Hyman,
	Phil Klass, Paul Kurtz, James Randi.
Consulting: Isaac Asimov, William Sims Bainbridge, John Boardman,
	Milbourne Christopher, John Cole, C. Hansel, E. Krupp, Andrew Neher,
	James Oberg, Robert Sheaffer.
If you are familiar with at least three of those names, what hole have you
been in?

If our military is actually investigating "Phsycic Phenomena," it just
illustrates the old cliche: Military Intelligence is self-contradictory -
(how can anything that wants to impose Ada on the world be intelligent?).

This might generate alot of flames - if so, send them to /dev/null.  I
have an open mind, but it is not a trash container.  When scientific
experiments (which can be duplicated by and before skeptics) show that
paranormal events can happen, I'll pay attention.  In the mean time,
one should not be swayed by emotional arguments, however glib.

		from the bleeding fingertips of
			...!sequent!richard
				the rider in black