Annie Jacobsen: belief

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…If ESP is true or can work, why isn’t it relatively easy to show that in the laboratory? I believe the takeaway from my book on that subject is that it’s a fleeting technique. It definitely, to my eye, falls into the basket of belief. I saw things, as I report, that were inexplicable. You couldn’t really explain them by logic or science, but you can’t repeat that behavior, and so it’s not science. I don’t think you can “use it.” I think that’s what the CIA spent a long time trying to prove. I think the Defense Department made the mistake of believing that perhaps you could use it. To what extent do government bodies still use self-proclaimed psychics?…

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