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Hier een uitspraak van Sagan:

In a 1995 book saturated with piercing skepticism ,the late Carl Sagan of Cornell University maintained his lifelong mission of educating the public about science in this case debunking popular hysteria over alien abductions, channelers, faith healers, the "face" of Mars, and practically everything else found in the New Age section of most bookstores. Then, in one paragraph among 450 pages, we find an astonishing admission:

"At the time of writing there are three claims in the ESP field which, in my oppinion, deserve serious study: (1) that by thought alone human can (barely) affect random numer generators in computers: (2) that people under mild sensory deprivation can receive thoughts or images "projected" at them; and (3) that young children sometimes report the details of a previous life, which upon checking turn out to be accurate and which they could not have known about in any other way than reincarnation." I pick these claims not because I think they're likely to be valid (I don't), but as examples of contentions that might be true." They "have at least some, although still dubious, experimental support. Of course, I could be wrong."