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From: steve@kontron.UUCP (Steve McIntosh)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Re: Geller
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Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 19:18:06 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 25 19:18:06 1985
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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.