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Subject: psi research vs witchcraft
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Date: Sun, 28-Dec-86 22:11:58 EST
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I hope that readers of this newsgroup realize that there is a vast 
difference between academic parapsychology and the practice of
witchcraft and other occult arts.  The former is a scientific discipline,
no different in principle than experimental psychology or physics; the latter
is essentially a belief system.

Whether there are any legitimate connections between occult beliefs 
and claims and the small magnitude, statistical psi effects as revealed 
in the laboratory, remains to be seen.