Scientists should use more 'science' to test mediums
To the editor,
I'm embarrassed at the Wildcat's credulousness in its uncritical reporting of the "talking with the dead" conference ("Dimensions beyond dimensions," June 16).
The very minimum requirement in the scientific study of mediums is the presence of an experienced magician who, to a person, say that scientists are easier by far to fool than are children.
When magicians, such as Houdini and Randi are present at seances, they have no trouble showing the tricks of the seance trade.
It should be a scandal, even in woo-woo Tucson, Arizona, that our tax dollars support these gullible, credulous professors who don't have the guts to admit that when you die, you are dead as a duck, and you quack no more. Ê
Emmett Velten
Tucsonan
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