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Copyright 1983 Information Access Co., a division of Ziff Communications Co. ;
Copyright American Association for the Advancement of Science
Science
December 2, 1983
SECTION: Vol. 222 ; Pg. 997; ISSN: 0036-8075
LENGTH: 555 words
HEADLINE: Parapsychology update.
BYLINE: Holden, Constance.
BODY :
Parapsychology Update
At least one member of Congress, Senator Claiborne Pell (D-R. I. ), has
publicly expressed an interest in parapsychology, but apparently there are quite
a few others sufficiently curious to ask the Congressional Research Service
(CRS) to report on the
research in the United States, almost all from private sources. In
contrast, research is more or less thriving in the Soviet Union where
speculation puts the funding at tens of millions of dollars. However, the only
recognized application is dowsing, which is taught to mineralogists and
geologists at the Omsk Polytechnical Institute. The People's Republic of China
is said to have developed a fairly recent interest in parapsychology, including
psychic healing.
In the United States, the field has been chiefly explored by psychologists,
but physicists have become increasingly ...
example, the possible disturbance of the memory functions of single
microelectronic chips.
So far, the most striking results appear to be coming from remote viewing
experiments. At Stanford Research Institute physicist Harold Puthoff is
conducting double-blind experiments where a person is sent
.
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SUBJECT: United States. Congressional Research Service, Reports; Clairvoyance,
Research; Parapsychology, Political aspects; Parapsychology and science,
Research ;
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