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...Price was a believer in parapsychology himself until he read (somewhat belatedly) David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. (Wrote Hume in the first half of the 18th century: "No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.") Now convinced that there is no scientific basis for ESP (extrasensory perception), Price challenges its champions to put people who claim to read cards at a distance or penetrate into the future to some practical work, for example...
...often ever more strictly administered by the Immigration Service. In one case, a Polish DP student falsely stated at a hearing that he did not have a job. About a year later, he voluntarily admitted at another hearing that he had lied. Officials regarded the falsehood as an example of "moral turpitude" despite the fact that student made the admission without any pressure. He was ordered deported and now remains here only because of a private bill introduced on his behalf...
...Speech. The former President was fighting mad. "I have been accused," he said, "in effect, of knowingly betraying the security of the U.S. This charge is, of course, a falsehood. And the man who made it had every reason to know it is a falsehood." Truman recalled an FBI report to the White House. "The report contained many names . . . concerning whom there were then unverified accusations. Among the names mentioned. I now find, was that of Harry Dexter White ... As best I can now determine, I first learned of the accusation . . . early in February 1946, when an FBI report specifically...
...stronger than ever. The almost unbearable tension in American academic and civil-service life at the present time springs from the intransigence of Senator McCarthy on the one hand, but on the other hand from the widespread adherence, amongst the younger university men in America, to the monstrous falsehood (and to the belief in a totalitarian state, which it implies) that all human actions, political, cultural or religious, arise ultimately from economic causes...
...saying that "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," said Dr. Stieglitz, is a falsehood spread by young men who want their elders out of the way and by lazy oldsters who want an excuse for doing nothing...