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Senator Hughes is probably Coe's most devoted convert. Hughes' long spiritual odyssey carried him from Alcoholics Anonymous and Methodist Sunday-school teaching to the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, a group of ministers and laymen who explore psychic phenomena. "I was looking for Christ," Hughes recalls. "I wanted miracles today. I wanted to believe in eternal life. My prayer life was constant, and I read the Scriptures, but what I was seeking I didn't find." Then in 1969 he met Coe, "a man who lived, believed and practiced the Scriptures. So, in prayer, Christ gradually came alive...
...about the phenomena reported by the Institute for Parapsychology in Durham, N.C., seldom questioned the sincerity or integrity of Dr. Joseph B. Rhine, the institute's founder, or his staff. Last week a shaken Rhine was preparing to acknowledge publicly a scandal that has already rocked the entire psychic establishment...
Rhine, who pioneered E.S.P. (extrasensory perception) research in the 1930s, has long recognized the need for sophisticated techniques, including the use of computers, to collect reliable data on psychic phenomena. Levy, a medical student who began working at the institute during his summer vacation in 1969, showed an unusual talent for automating experiments and recording data. After Levy graduated from the Medical College of Georgia last year, Rhine hired him as a full-time researcher; soon he was promoted to director...
...early May, Levy was reporting 54% pleasure stimulus scores, indicating that the rats had psychic powers. Then one of Levy's assistants became suspicious when he noticed that the director seemed to be loitering needlessly around the equipment. With two colleagues, the assistant decided to check. From a hiding place one watched while the others helped Levy run a test. They saw him tamper with the recorder, causing his tape to score high. Another set of instruments-installed without Levy's knowledge-confirmed their suspicions by recording the expected 50% score...
...falsified data; after failing to reproduce earlier positive tests, he had felt a need to force the data to reflect the results he expected. Following the disclosure, Rhine set other staff members to work, checking the more important of Levy's earlier findings, and cautioned other psychic researchers not to rely on these data until they can be verified...