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J. G. PRATT et al.1 recently reported that a subject, Pavel Stepanek, was able to demonstrate extra-sensory perception (ESP) by making a particular verbal response to a concealed object in conditions where, according to a referee's report, “this object could not have been recognized by the use of any known sensory mechanism”.
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HANSEL, C. ESP: Deficiencies of Experimental Method. Nature 221, 1171–1172 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2211171a0
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