Skeptics have long insisted that Duke University’s J.B. Rhine ESP experiments beginning in the 1930s were a bust. But the record, insists Mitch Horowitz, author of the new book Daydream Believer, says otherwise. And he sets out to show, in this excerpt from the book, how thanks to Rhine’s efforts, “we possess heavily scrutinized, replicable statistical evidence for an extra-physical component of the human psyche.” But it didn’t end with Rhine, who in fact founded the field of parapsychology. Remarkable strides have occurred in the field in the US and other nations, all growing from the efforts of the scientists at Duke’s Parapsychology Laboratory, now an independent, non-profit parapsychology organization known as the Rhine Research Center. (PH)
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