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Subject: Re: Psychic Warfare - an informed opinio - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 20-Jan-84 23:09:36 EST
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uokvax!emjej    Jan 19 21:31:00 1984

I saw said *Nova* episode on ESP. I was *EXTREMELY* offended; the
program on nuclear energy at least made some attempt at rational
discussion amid the technophobes...

Consider the relative amounts of time given to the three (if my
count was correct) skeptics vs. a much larger number of believers.
Nowhere in the program was there evidence that they talked to a
magician, or bothered to read the skeptical literature at all
(I'd have been very interested in hearing from Lev Tepolov, a
Soviet newsman whose articles on psychics in the USSR are said
to be scathing). This is supposed to be the premier TV program
on science? Ah, well; PBS meets Fred Silverman...

				"They laughed at Copernicus;
				 they laughed at Galileo;
				 they laughed at Bozo the Clown."

					James Jones