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Mark Gober | Consciousness First, Modern Amnesia, and An End To Upside Down Thinking

My Family Thinks I'm Crazy

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Is Science About the Free Expression of Ideas?

"I was hearing about scientific journals that would reject studies on psychic abilities or things like it just on the basis of the subject matter," he says. A woman who studied these sorts of psychic phenomena at a mainstream US institution was told she should take her psychic research off her resume because it would be too controversial. "What I'm seeing more and more of and having gotten to know some of the scientists myself, what I'm seeing is that there is a paradigm in science where you're free to do whatever you want."

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