Spook and Humbug

Read two books from the late 80s on psi-tech. A little research for the SciFi story board I'm working on. Good grief, they even got into Kirlian photography. Of course moist surfaces can carry a static charge. It's called viscosity. What did they call it all? "Para-science". Now there's an oxymoron. Then there's "remote viewing" that proved an epic fail in stupid programs like "Stargate" (no, not the annoying SciFi series)...and of all things working with a con artist like Uri Geller. Seriously? Like you can pull this shit out of a hat for tax payer's money. Compared to what medical science knows today about the processes of cognition through various magnetic scan technologies, these nudniks wouldn't even qualify as GPs. Sure, certain frequencies can paralyze or affect various body functions, but mapping thought, no matter what your translation algorithms, is like looking for a needle in a haystack (and that with each individual). You're better off sniffing out biochemical signatures if you really want to know what yon plonker is up to. Leave it to the dogs (or truffle pigs if you like) but man, what alot of spook and humbug. I checked out the authors: Two different names, but much the same dialogue claiming to read Scientific American and understand half of it (nope, not good enough). More likely to go down in history as the mother of all self-inflicted misinformation.