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Letter: False effect

Published 2 December 1995

From Jon Huddleston

Susan Blackmore is correct in saying that there are numerous studies on anomalous physical phenomena associated with random number generators which have been interpreted in terms of psychokinesis (Review, 11 November). However, many of these studies ascribe similar properties to randomly seeded pseudo random number generators. This should be sufficient to allow anyone to smell a rat.

Issue no. 2006 published 2 December 1995

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