presley (02/20/83)
The March issue of *Discover* has an interesting article on the efforts of James "The Amazing" Randi. It seems that he got two of his magician acquaintances to present themselves in 1979 as psychics to the McDonnell Laboratory (Washington University in St. Louis). The lab investigates psychic phenomena. The two, Steven Shaw (then 18) and Michael Edwards (17), spent over 120 hours over three years there and were considered the only genuine cases of psychic ability. The boys demonstrated psychokinetic powers such as bending wires, keys, and cutlery, causing clocks to move, and turn the display on a digital clock to gibberish. They also gave examples of thought photography. Needless to say, all of their psychic abilities were done with magician tricks; they were never confronted with a charge of trickery.