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 SECTION: Vol. 222 ; Pg. 997; ISSN: 0036-80
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 HEADLINE: Parapsychology update.
 BYLINE: Holden, Constance.
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 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 ...
 SUBJECT: United States. Congressional Research Service, Reports; Clairvoyance,
 Research; Parapsychology, Political aspects; Parapsychology and science,
 Research
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