hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) (06/18/85)
<>Chair of Parapsychology endowed at University of Edinburgh. Dr. Robert L. Morris (presently a senior research scientist at Syracuse University's School of Computer and Information Sciences) has been appointed to fill this endowed chair. Exerpts from an interview published in the June 19 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education- "Parapsychology really should be regarded as an interdisciplinary problem area, not a belief system." "I found, when I have taught introductory parapsychology, that I spend about a third of each semester explaining what's not psychic but looks like it." The article continued, "He said he hoped to do the same sort of thing at Edinburgh, educating people to the 'trickery' behind many allegedly paranormal occurrences, such as the psychic Uri Geller's metal bending or the performance of 'psychic surgery'." The interview also discusses Morris' suggestion that an unusual talent for working with equipment or mechanical devices may be psychic and should be the subject of research. --henry schaffer n c state univ