Over the course of two years the young men, were taught increasingly sophisticated tricks. Of course the possibility for fraud is present in all areas and has occurred been documented in other areas. However a major result of these highly publicized incidents is that funding for psi research has been seriously reduced and respected journals are at best reluctant publish findings and this is what is best remembered and referenced by scientists and laypeople with regard to psi research. However, there are about forty laboratories worldwide that are presently engaged in research into psi phenomena of various forms. The majority of them study anomalous cognition.
Theories cover a large range of possibilities.
Other areas of investigation include examination of what physical organs may be involved in these types of perceptions. Much misinformation and widely publicized half-truths, and negative pubic opinion continue to hamper wide spread investigation into anomalous cognition. And at this time there are no theories that can be verified. The New Age Notes of A Fringe Watcher . Buffalo, New York.