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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

The Internet: Providing Credulous People Ever More Opportunities to Waste Their Time

In the first scientific experiment to be conducted via the social messaging service, experts will investigate "remote viewing" - the psychic ability to identify distant locations.

Members of the public will be asked to "tweet" their impressions of a randomly chosen spot in the UK visited by one of the researchers.

Then they will vote for which of five photographs on a website shows where the visitor was standing.

The trial will be repeated with visually different locations four times.


HT: Mark Shea
Posted by John Jansen at 12:20 PM
Labels: Stories that at first glance look like they're from The Onion but really aren't, There's No England Now

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