By the end of the seminar, even participants with no formal scientific training will be capable of conducting proper examinations of psychic claims and arriving at decisions that are authoritative and valuable. How you can establish proper, adequate controls without elaborate equipment or facilities. How you can judge whether people are being deceptive or whether they are really deceiving themselves. Dowsers say they can detect objects or substances by means of a forked stick, a pendulum, a pair of stiff wires, or some other magic wand that moves in response to a mysterious force. Some of the devious techniques people have attempted to use to win the Foundation's million-dollar prize.
Psychics are able to duplicate drawings secretly made by another person.
A psychic causes objects to roll about dramatically on a sheet of plastic. In the past hundred years science has cast a beam of light into the murky shadows of our long forgotten ancestors hundreds of thousands and even millions of years in the past. This scientific story has become the origin myth for our age, told by the story tellers known as paleoanthropologists. Before the Internet, the printing press and the written word, there was the spoken word, the oral tradition. Since the beginning of speech, people have told stories about their world, their gods, their ancestors, and themselves.