nate WBS ER se wh : Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-0Q%87R000400040024-0 CPYRGHT llovever the s Beceuber 06s and here ay bn 7 BEREC x &tion of the BP. A. to the A storm of controversy produced brought to a4 vote, Caml tte lool of Prasident of the am ALET hed daxvk far the PLA. of Nebel pris 100 F. collea C K. wa Sa 3968 Dean became cation, this time the dent, Tn, Walter Orr Roberts, was fLavove on the cormittes. at the firet tairdie, be weurdtie decided to lay lew and (Biophya Rean that the ax, 19690 should try agair only too willing, espe secedd bhincd cine Yee OF RO, Yet he Not only that su for future years, eritexvia changes was o EME « of TMrectors of the AAAS Lista gensidexed LL preposterous fn a 4 mg, tow eolentific, Seo they did net AGAS Coune)ei] BS pat thivd twnedle-- vote an Decemsar 24 a metion by Councd 3 the in 1968. The Council e GS Oner scelentistsa very hard to undezatand, the Royal Socie land) stated aad not and Fellow of in Brig lieved In ESPs 88 Seeretary of the B.A. and AAAS Conmni tree gts accept sub 33 The AAAS Fresi- om Cour pie to cue spoke for us wee overridden aud voted down but the on vera to e ofkicialls Locked Jolt of the PLA, ecred to FLA. Council on « tie vote with Dr. tesseup. So Dean becade Secretary not submit in 1969; Chia wes in hone thet for affiliation would net be changed » Pittsburgh. and ferst supposed to haip the rid that we is wos a kind of severse logic but Deen was ally as (2 knew Dr. resident-sloect, aad chairman of the Deants ‘com the Washinaten AAAS fo us. committe: would mont 3m 1970. Noverthele the tevie due decision che IgE WAS “vee Loic, soy that even if we table the very dark application is & and vouch fos the PLA. . backad up the decision te mount MH 1ONS ave no easy ms Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000400040024-0
: Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA- RDP96- 00#67R000400040024-0 0 CPYRGHT ~ 3 - Consticn to PLA. members who sent ir ae xf thedx L@ pene iS Of t “udbhe wenore Very hard. nosed decisions io te be mada acl jai i whi : : aewNee aac which to leave out, as Chis in dtseif te cast of sedentifie acumen ; Fe 5 tse & se@dentifie acumer e. Metormekl was extro- ovdinay ily helpfat 4 included in answer pvocedural matters, and sults of a poll of P.A. members Deen conducted were includ . © tunetlideda «af me about two-thirds of tho S@ veplying ware AAAS members and nine PA manbex s . a ee ahhe aed 4 Agee ale ware also AAAS Fellous. The membershiy Lot showed that teo-thirds head a aT Ww whee — PhD, degree. at ER aster i we GEGKE A Li £ abous 50 master's sad PH.D. theses at Universities “ wy ek mat, ‘4 avouned the world showed Chat degrees had bean given (by some top-flight “ md ade de de me D Universities) € search in paransuchal ies) for research in parapsychology. Dr. R. Van de Castle (1970 a PLA. President) was var ry helpful herve. A Uiet of recent notices of Sywsesia or tthe BA I aS eo oe on Parapsycholos Aven at 7 ¥ _ | a at the: Naw fighar eo tm yar, z Ys &) & New York Academy of science, New York Uni- “IT, UCLA, A, Psy corer Ey ‘ 5 why As Psychological Assa., A. Psychiatrie Assn., and ASPR, was alsa presented. The 20-pases we ud 2 (pe Peges were exquisitely type i flawlessly Xereued with the Seay od p Xerox repaixy man pregent to ensure it so, Then they were separated into transparent plastic folders. Dean had to disappear from life for three weeks a penn ke we to Bet, this da et an ar o aed ey re a has a 7 ; ne each yeax. Tt is human to err, and on the 1969 one he was coupleting the packets with one hour to gG before the Post Office closed; dd ‘ | Cs suddenly he realised he had Xeroxad the wroac article, leaving it oun and submitting two of ther P ° D Ling two of another, “So AG Vaced acrass town to the Xerox machine be- fore it closed t "¢ co Oged, eb ye: bay D Ce with Bane, z 4, and thea to the Post OF swith five minutes to spare to ares3 rT pe ta = bargain for another houy which vas Bvanted ta max the apolécation wa aide | pr ation was considered by the fivet committea in the second] wLlf of November t 4 November. Daan could not Find out unett miduDecamber that it had pussed. ‘the PLA, apnlicetion was th: a ; apphication was then on the ependa ‘of the AAAS Cauaci® meoting sent slegare 2 Totem 7 mi 2 nt to dalesates Ttem 7. But there was ¢ mistake Only four A. members were 13 te TMEY S Were Llinte LAAS I nine eg as AAAS Fellows, mot nine. So Mean went up to tne ‘anventice wen tel a tadin sy Ft ‘ 2 1 Convention this year in Bosten, and seusht owt Dr. Roberts oy ame foe Ay 2 fy euey x ' er he came off a TV show, He egrecd to have the typing mistake Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000400040024-0
e. cpyRthpfoved For Regase 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-0Q%87R000400040024-0 changed aml gave the goad nava that the Board of dfecters on Dacembaxs 24 hsd passed tae P.A appliestion., So new thare Councai on December 30, when a strange event occurred on the Polynesian haar Ehe é¢ must have eaten 300 such cogkles over che years and res ° On the 29th, im the KONTERL, at 7 p.m, he was WILL COME 20 YOU SOON," Did soon mean juste 17 The AAAS Council meeting was held ja the dereHilten ballroon which woe dole J vas $0 vast that an Obsarver?s Gallery was reaped off at the back, Thus Dean could get a fivet-hand secount of what happened. # Chairian should have been Dr. Spiilhans but he could not be pregent, Neither could Dr. Roberte, so tt fell to the 1969 AAAS President, Dr. Bantiey Glasa. About 12 noon Dy. Glass brought up Ttem 7 ou the agenda--the appliesation of the A American Orthopsychiatrie Asacclation and the Patapaychological Association for agfiliation. De. Glass: YL will put each organization separately to a vote, The A. Orothopaychiatric Assn. do I hese a motion? Yes. Second? Yes. Any 4 discussion? Silence. All those in favor of the motion say Aye? Aye. Against? Silence. The motion is passed by voice vote.! ‘Now the Parapsychological Asseciatien, Te heer a motion? Silence, (Dean cringed, since he hed tried to arvange a friend but could wot end per~ haps 1t was as well, The next ten seconds were interminable.) Then « SOFE voice spoke up and said "Yes.' De. Glass: ‘te there a second? Silence, ' (Again Bean nearly died. Do wa lose it hecause there is no second te the motion?) But after five seconds someous said ‘Yes.’ "is these any discus sion?* Several wembers trded to get to the miexephones. <A man whose name Dean could not heavy said: "In our agenda it states ére Lo advance perapaychology as a science, to field, and to integrate the findings with those o: REE anenes Of eclence, * the so-called phenomena £ parapsychology do not exist ar . is impossible to do ecleatifie york tr “8 aVea, so that we have a null science. Tf there. fore will vote against this motion." A roman member said: ‘We are nee fame iliar with what parapsychology is and so wa are not qualified to make a vote on this association.* (Talis wes not fa correct, sinee Dre. MeConnet) had undertaken the huge task nailing several itewa of literature describing Porapsychology to all 539 deloesat: luring the Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000400040024-0
eek UI, HL st edorede oe a i 4 Fi Ps % 4 4 : A 4 at 3 3 4 overs Seen meade Sh bua Ald le a le ade a hn atti cit ‘nate ate ae “Approved For For | Release 2001/03/07 : CiA- RDP96-00#87R000400040024-0 CPYRGHT | ~ a added; "Tha Comittee on Council work £or a very long time. The Ce vemietenk is Gpen in membership to cr S and eeyosties; and they spientific methods of enquiry ific. Further information hes come te us that the number of AAAS Fell who are also members ef the B.A. is not four se on the agerda but nine.? ¢ the typing exroy wes 7 working in ow favow.) ‘Is thare eny further discussia Dy. Margaret Mead epoke: For the last ten years we have been arguing about what constitutes science and scientific method and what societies use We even changed the By-laws about it. The ‘ B88 “Catieties and blinds placeboes, double blinds and other standard ric devieas (Then in ringing statement.) The whele nistory of seleutif savence is full of sei tists lovestigating phenorena that the sotabListnent ata not believe wer i submit that we vote ir f OF Ass question of a vote is acause of the controvers mation we should hava a show of hands. Please raise your hand members in favor of the motion?? (CApproxir mately 160-180 bands gaugad number of tables and average number of pexsons seated.) ‘Those amair (Approximately 30-35.) Dr. Gle ’ seams N@ wotion ia carried, anyone desires a count of the nande, Lwihl ask fox the vete to be repested? Silenca. The motioa is carvied. New to Liem &, ea &, “ Dean was overcome with emotion end wept. He had got ont Gf a bed a Co go to Eoston. It vas due to those members who had published superlativ tom Fa ‘ arn) ve ei cal ow “4 oa . . ¥eacarch papers. Now hevever, many perapsyche ogists? ponitions tics would be strengthened. ‘The TP. A. nanbership would vise a8 many good - scientists would be eble to josa new without forfeiting their jabs or their promotion, Money may be easier too. Advances would come in man’s understand » oa oe ing of his mind. it was 4 kind of intsliectual turaing point es we entered the Seventies. We can rejoice for a time, fOr Baey of us have yearned Lox decadea to ba regarded as respactable s Yet we must not let ft gO to our honda, | bul hope for better research with ore emphasis on a theory or model which will pradict resulte. we Be a Perspective imay wa remamber a frea translation of t i. doun before a Little fact and ponder it lamb Ly, porder it the lonser and more and the az ous ant?