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From: berryh@udel.EDU (John Berryhill)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Strange results in Nature article
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Date: 30 Jul 88 21:55:57 GMT
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dkhusema@faui44.UUCP (Dirk Husemann) writes:
>At least it seems like a pretty weird practise to send in a *magician*
>("The Amazing Randi") to investigate an issue which has been verified by
>other labs also ...

It is quite reasonable.  Scientists don't expect to be decieved, by
others or themselves.  Randi's career is the study and application
of deception.  He is intimately aware of ways in which people may
be fooled, hypnotized, or otherwise made willing to accept conclusions
that are false.