Volume 26, Number 8 · May 17, 1979
Quantum Theory and Quack Theory
By John Archibald Wheeler, Martin Gardner
Earlier this year, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. J.A. Wheeler startled his audience by asking the AAAS to reconsider its decision (made ten years ago at the insistence of Margaret Mead) to dignify parapsychology by giving its researchers an affiliate status in the association. Here is the background to Wheeler's explosive remarks.
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