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Special effect by Christine Athena
Professor of Sociology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti 48197 written on Feb 17, 1987:
I am a sociologist concerned with the way the scientific community accepts and rejects new theories and data
claims and am also the Director of the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research. I am particularly familiar
with Dr. Sarfatti's workbecause I have been researching a piece contracted for OMNI, a science magazine, on
the interface between quantum physicists (especially those interested in nonlocality and the role of
consciousness in the measurement process) and parapsychology. Dr. Sarfatti's theories have implications for
the "paraphysics" research being conducted at SRI International, the Mind Science Foundation, the Institute
for Advanced Studies at Austin, and the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Project. I expect to
prominently feature him and his theories in my OMNI article.
Dr. Sarfatti is very much an individualist, but I have always found him highly articulate and a warm
personality ... Obviously he has gone his own way (certainly an academically unconventional path) in finding
support for his work on a theory with extraordinary potential for science and technology. In the process he has
attracted the attention of a wide spectrum of persons both within the science community and government.
Clearly, he has taken a large risk in pursuing his highly novel, creative and controversial work, but he has
always understood that he is playing for very large stakes. If he is right, the rewards would be immense.