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- From: gilligan@bldrdoc.gov (Jonathan Gilligan 303-497-3861)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: "What's New" July-24-1992
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- Date: 31 Jul 92 00:43:57 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.010055.3863@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Jul29.012628.4238@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Jul29.024403.5319@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1992Jul29.024403.5319@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
- |>>Yea, those astrologers might be after our vital bodily fluids. Come on
- |>>Dale, this is farther then even you normally stretch a point. I have
- |>>seen letters from the APS to newspapers asking them to put disclaimers
- |>>on horoscopes.
- |>
- |> Where? When? Publicity? Studies? Commissions?
- |>
- |> The position of the APS is that the space station is not 'science'
- |> and should not be funded as such. I would just expect them to pursue
- |> other 'science purity' issues with the same vigour.
- |>
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- I missed the APS action on horoscopes, but one of the fora (Science
- and Society, I think) gave an award to James Randi a little while ago
- for his work debunking claims of extrasensory perception and telekinesis.
- Randi is currently being sued by Uri Geller for saying that Geller cannot
- bend spoons with his psychic powers.
-
- ---Jon
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- Disclaimer --- The government probably disagrees with my opinions.
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