>> The only way to scientifically determine whether a claim is valid or 
>> not is to, you know, actually investigate it. If we wrote off anything 
>> that sounded too weird, human kind would never have advanced anywhere.
>>
> No argument there. Now.. Given how only the people that cheat, lie, 
> stack the deck, or consider "Blair Witch" style theatrics, followed by 
> babbling, "That random sound sort of sounded like...", or, "Gee that 
> random camera glitch moved like moved 'purposefully', why can't we drop 
> the supposed paranormal already? Oh, and I love that last one, "move 
> purposefully". By whose definition, by what criteria? That its less 
> random than some other random light? More? Moved in what you *think* is 
> a pattern? What the hell does "moved purposefully" even fraking mean 
> without context of the ability to determine what the purpose *is*?

The military weren't studying the entire zoo of paranormal claims, they 
studied one specific aspect: the claim that certain people can see 
events distant in space and possibly time. This one is quite easy to 
verify one way or the other. They tried; the statistics were 
unimpressive; they gave up and shut down the project. Seems like a 
non-WTF to me.

> Its been tested and retested ***over and over*** thousands of times, 

It has *now*. Not sure about back when this study was done...

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