Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ll1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxn!ihnp4!mgnetp!ll1!cej From: cej@ll1.UUCP (One of the Jones Boys) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Geller Message-ID: <343@ll1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 17:26:07 EDT Article-I.D.: ll1.343 Posted: Wed Jun 26 17:26:07 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 04:21:08 EDT References: <279@kontron.UUCP> Organization: No Place Special Lines: 23 > I remember a TV show (probably on PBS) where they document a deliberate > case of para-psych fraud: A stage magician took two "unknown" youngsters > and taught them how to perform all sorts of psychic tricks. These two > then went out and fooled *everyone* that they did tricks for - including > many scientists that were seriously researching the area. They > were hailed as "living proof" of psychic phenonoma. Then they > exposed themselves to demonstrate how easy it is to hoodwink > people. They found that scientists were even more succeptable to > trickery than normal folk. Two minor points: First, as I recall, they were "performing" for one of those scientific organizations that is out to prove that ESP is real, so the scientists were not unbiased. Second, they were instructed to reveal the fact that they were faking it if anyone, even in passing, asked them if they were. No one even mentioned the possibility. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ discalimer: If royalty were still in power, I'd be the King of Fools ...ihnp4!mgnetp!ll1!cej Llewellyn Jones ------------------------------------------------------------