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IT is probable that most psychologists and practically all physiologists regard the evidence in support of ‘clairvoyance’ and ‘telepathy’ as worthless from a scientific point of view. So naïve, as a rule, are the arguments used by those anxious to give verisimilitude to the results of imposed tests that few scientists are willing to discuss or even seriously to consider these subjects with their question-begging titles. This is regrettable, as the public are apt to draw erroneous conclusions when they see reiterated statements in the popular press pass unchallenged. For this reason Mr. S. G. Soal, senior lecturer in pure mathematics at Queen Mary College, University of London, is to be congratulated on having conducted detailed investigations into certain alleged ‘psychometrising’ faculties of the medium ‘Marion’, and for having published in the press1 and elsewhere2 his conclusions thereon. It is yet more a subject for congratulation that a periodical of the scientific status of NATURE3 is willing to devote space to reports upon investigations of this subject.
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Sunday Times, March 13, 1938.
Bulletin 3. University of London Council for Psychical Investigation.
NATURE, 141, 565 (March 26, 1938).
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BEADNELL, C. Scientific Tests of Telepathy. Nature 141, 878 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141878a0
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