Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site kontron.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!pesnta!pertec!kontron!steve From: steve@kontron.UUCP (Steve McIntosh) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Re: Geller Message-ID: <279@kontron.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 19:18:06 EDT Article-I.D.: kontron.279 Posted: Tue Jun 25 19:18:06 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 05:21:42 EDT Organization: Kontron Electronics, Irvine, CA Lines: 12 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. (( That's all I remember - anybody know details? )) An interesting science fiction novel that also deals with this area is "Code of the Life Maker" by James Hogan.