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Subject: Re: Re: Psychic Warfare - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 22-Jan-84 22:59:32 EST
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uokvax!emjej    Jan 21 17:01:00 1984

The difference between alleged psychic powers and the items which, by
citing, people try to put into the same equivalence class, is that
the people who proposed a round earth/heliocentric solar system, etc.
could propose repeatable experiments to test their propositions. Moreover,
they were not fashionable beliefs the way Velikovskianism, astrology,
and ESP are now. (Galileo risked his neck for his beliefs; the cranks
risk fame and fortune among the gullible who are all too ready to
believe.)

					James Jones