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Project - Project Alpha Part I

World's Greatest Con

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The Rise and Fall of Parapsychology

Johnny Carson's appearance may have been the seed to codify scientific rigors in parapsychology. At this point, that social contagion that need to believe it was too strong. If anything, that desire to believe evolved to excuse this miss. Now even more people were fascinated by it, including academia. And so the McDonald lab, the Mac lab for short, is born.

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