A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense by Normand Baillargeon

Author:Normand Baillargeon [Baillargeon, Normand]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2011-01-04T06:00:00+00:00

For our next example, let’s go to France. It is Friday, January 27, 1989, and a story in the French daily Nice-Matin reads, “Incredible: a mysterious mind reader predicts the winning lotto numbers. In a letter posted Tuesday and opened at Nice-Matin’s offices by a bailiff, the mystery man announced the results of the following day’s draw.” You can imagine the stir caused by this extraordinary news. Pressed with questions, the paper explained what happened. The day before, a journalist had received an envelope marked, “Clairvoyance Experiment: To be opened only in front of a bailiff.” When the bailiff was called in, he noted that the postmark did indeed read, “4:30 p.m., January 24, 1989.” So they opened the envelope; the letter explained this was an experiment meant to prove the clairvoyance of the sender, a gift he in no way wanted to use for base pecuniary ends. The lotto numbers followed: they were indeed those that were drawn the following morning!

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